Security for Connected Devices

With this post, I want to continue from earlier discussions on security posted here and here and focus on Connected Devices or the Internet of Things IoT. IoT typically represents a network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable...

openSUSE Security Update : LibreOffice and dependency libraries (openSUSE-2019-912)

This update for LibreOffice, libepubgen, liblangtag, libmwaw, libnumbertext, libstaroffice, libwps, myspell-dictionaries, xmlsec1 fixes the following issues : LibreOffice was updated to 6.1.3.2 fate326624 and contains new features and lots of bugfixes : The full changelog can be found on :...

openSUSE Security Update : git-annex (openSUSE-2019-497)

This update for git-annex to version 6.20180626 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2018-10857: Prevent file content disclosure by refusing to download content that cannot be verified with a hash, from encrypted special remotes and glacier bsc1098062. - CVE-2018-10859: Prevent local gpg encrypted...

Fedora 28 : php-twig2 (2019-e86155be6e)

Version 2.7.2 2019-03-12 - added TemplateWrapper::getTemplateName ---- Version 2.7.1 2019-03-12 - fixed class aliases ---- Version 2.7.0 2019-03-12 - fixed sandbox security issue under some circumstances, calling the toString method on an object was possible even if not allowed by the security...

Android Q — Google Adds New Mobile Security and Privacy Features

Google has recently released the first beta version of Android Q, the next upcoming version of Google's popular mobile operating system, with a lot of new privacy improvements and other security enhancements. Android Q, where Q has not yet been named, offers more control over installed apps, thei...

How Radio Frequency Technology is Putting the Industrial Sector at Risk

Each industry has its own unique security risks. The banking and health care sectors, for example, deal with some considerably sensitive financial and client data, and therefore must put robust protections in place to ensure its safety. The industrial sector, however, is a bit different. For many...

Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubli...

New Samsung Galaxy S10 review and features

By Uzair Amir The all new Samsung Galaxy S10 family has been released by Samsung on 8th March, 2019 and despite the high price & a lazy start, the Galaxy S10 has made a record in pre-orders for Samsung in the US. When the pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy S10 family began, there were rumors and...

openssl security update

1.0.2k-16.0.1.el76.1 - Bump release for rebuild. 1.0.2k-16.1 - use SHA-256 in FIPS RSA pairwise key check - fix CVE-2018-5407 - EC signature local timing side-channel key extraction 1.0.2k-16 - fix CVE-2018-0495 - ROHNP - Key Extraction Side Channel on DSA, ECDSA - fix incorrect error message on...

Extraneous SSH Public Keys added to Authorized Keys file on Linux VM

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March 12, 2019—KB4491736 Update for Windows 10 Mobile (OS Build 15254.556)

March 12, 2019—KB4491736 Update for Windows 10 Mobile OS Build 15254.556 Improvements and fixes This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include: This build includes all the improvements from KB4489871. If you...

NREL BEopt <= 2.8.0.0 RCE Vulnerability

NREL BEopt is prone to a remote code execution RCE vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:nrel:beopt"; if...

SUSE-SU-2019:0563-1 Security update for audit

This update for audit fixes the following issues: Audit on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 was updated to 2.8.1 to bring new features and bugfixes. bsc1125535 FATE326346 Many features were added to auparsenormalize cli option added to auditd and audispd for setting config dir In auditd, restore the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: ckeditor-4.11.2-1.fc28

CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG edito r, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common edit ing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: tor-0.3.4.11-1.fc28

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaThunderbird Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0249-1 Rating: important References: 1122983 1125330 Cross-References: CVE-2016-5824 CVE-2018-12405 CVE-2018-17466 CVE-2018-18335 CVE-2018-18356 CVE-2018-18492 CVE-2018-18493 CVE-2018-18494...

Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 22)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week U.S. officials charged a form...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2019-182)

This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 60.5.0 fixes the following issues : Security vulnerabilities addressed MFSA 2019-03 boo1122983 MFSA 2018-31 : - CVE-2018-18500: Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream - CVE-2018-18505: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages - CVE-2016-5824: Do...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaThunderbird Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0182-1 Rating: important References: 1122983 Cross-References: CVE-2016-5824 CVE-2018-12405 CVE-2018-17466 CVE-2018-18492 CVE-2018-18493 CVE-2018-18494 CVE-2018-18498 CVE-2018-18500 CVE-2018-18501...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: curl-7.61.1-8.fc29

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...