Websites Can Now Track You Online Across Multiple Web Browsers

You might be aware of websites, banks, retailers, and advertisers tracking your online activities using different Web "fingerprinting" techniques even in incognito/private mode, but now sites can track you anywhere online — even if you switch browsers. A team of researchers has recently developed...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: vim-8.0.324-1.fc25

VIM VIsual editor iMproved is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more...

Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Version 1 Enabled

The remote Windows host supports Server Message Block Protocol version 1 SMBv1. Microsoft recommends that users discontinue the use of SMBv1 due to the lack of security features that were included in later SMB versions. Additionally, the Shadow Brokers group reportedly has an exploit that affects...

Consortium Publishes Manifesto on Autonomous Vehicle Security

Intel, Uber and IoT company Aeris have joined forces in an effort aimed at fostering industry cooperation when it comes to building safety features into autonomous vehicles and the systems that support them. Today the group, which goes by the name Future of Automotive Security Technology Research...

Open Source Firewall: OPNsense

Open Source Firewall: OPNsense OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. It brings the rich feature set of commercial offerings...

TLS 1.3 at 33c3

Nick Sullivan and I gave a talk about TLS 1.3 at 33c3, the latest Chaos Communication Congress. Here's the Fahrplan entry. We spoke about the flow of TLS 1.2 vs. TLS 1.3, how it manages to save a round trip, resumption and 0-RTT, forward secrecy and replays, all the things that were removed, all...

Faraday v2.3 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you were looking for! It maps and leverages all the knowledge you generate in real time, letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the impact and risk being assessed by the audit in real-time...

Debian DLA-797-1 : mysql-5.5 security update

Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.54, which includes additional changes, such as performance improvements, bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see th...

Lavabit — Encrypted Email Service Once Used by Snowden, Is Back

Texas-based Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit,' that was forced to shut down in 2013 after not complying with a court order demanding access to SSL keys to snoop on Edward Snowden's emails, is relaunching on Friday. Lavabit CEO Ladar Levison had custody of the service's SSL encryption key that cou...

Debian DSA-3767-1 : mysql-5.5 - security update

Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.54, which includes additional changes, such as performance improvements, bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see th...

USN-3174-1 mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7 vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.54 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.17. In addition to security fixes...

BD Alaris 8015 PC Unit (Update B)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Becton, Dickinson and Company BD Equipment: BD Alaris 8015 PC Unit Vulnerabilities: Insufficiently Protected Credentials, Security Features 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the advisory...

MS14-026: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2: May 13, 2014

MS14-026: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2: May 13, 2014 View products that this article applies to. Introduction This update resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework...

MS13-082: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1: October 8, 2013

MS13-082: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1: October 8, 2013 View products that this article applies to. Introduction This update resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could...

MS14-053: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 3.5 for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012: September 9, 2014

MS14-053: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 3.5 for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012: September 9, 2014 View products that this article applies to. Introduction This update resolves a vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow denial of service if an...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: tor-0.2.8.12-1.fc25

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...

Fedora 25 : gdk-pixbuf2 (2016-a1e8589ef9)

gdk-pixbuf 2.36.2 release. - Remove the pixdata loader 776004 - Fix integer overflows in the jpeg loader 775218 - Add an external thumbnailer for images - Fix a NULL pointer dereference 776026 - Fix a memory leak 776020 - Support bmp headers with bitmask 766890 - Add tests for scaling 80925 -...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the system management of certain FireAMP system processes in Cisco FireAMP Connector Endpoint software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to stop certain protected FireAMP processes without requiring a password. Stopping certain critical processes could cause a denial...

CVE-2016-6449

A vulnerability in the system management of certain FireAMP system processes in Cisco FireAMP Connector Endpoint software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to stop certain protected FireAMP processes without requiring a password. Stopping certain critical processes could cause a denial...

CVE-2016-6616

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. In the "User group" and "Designer" features, a user can execute an SQL injection attack against the account of the control user. All 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.4 and 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.15.8 are affected...