Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: October 10, 2017

Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: October 10, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see...

Achieve Continuous Security and Compliance with the CIS Critical Security Controls

For InfoSec pros, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the constant noise from cybersecurity industry players — vendors, research firms, consultants, industry groups, government regulators and media outlets. A good antidote for this hyperactive chatter is to refocus on foundational InfoSec practices...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for samba is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for RHEL 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabili...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: September 12, 2017

Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: September 12, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see...

MGASA-2017-0335 Updated tcpdump packages fix security vulnerabilities

Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release Do not use getprotobynumber for protocol name resolution. Do not do any protocol name resolution if -n is specified. Improve errors detection in the test scripts. Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage. Clean up IS-IS printing. Fix buffer...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: krb5-1.15.1-25.fc26

Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system, which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form...

SUSE-SU-2017:2257-1 Security update for SUSE Manager Server 3.1

This update for the SUSE Manager Server 3.1 provides several fixes and improvements. The following security issues have been fixed: jabberd: - Fix offered SASL mechanism check. bsc1047282, CVE-2017-10807 spacewalk-java: - Do not allow XSS as Organization name. bsc1048968, CVE-2017-7538...

More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process

Richard Ledgett -- a former Deputy Director of the NSA -- argues against the US government disclosing all vulnerabilities: Proponents argue that this would allow patches to be developed, which in turn would help ensure that networks are secure. On its face, this argument might seem to make sense ...

Kernel pool overflow exploit combat of Windows 10-bug warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword This is the kernel pool overflow exploit combat of Windows 7 throughout the sequel, we will be in the Windows 10 system to achieve the same exploits, it will be more challenging because of Microsoft ever since Windows 8 has taken a lot for the kernel pool attacks defenses. This...

New Bill Seeks Basic IoT Security Standards

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government's purchase and use of a broad range of Internet-connected devices, including computers, routers and security cameras. The legislation, which also seeks to remedy some widely-perceive...

Legal Robot: No error or notification on Reset password page

Hello I found that there is no error occurring at Reset password page. There should error occur when user enter the wrong email-id or the entered password is used in 180 previous days or token got expired because from previous reset link also the page got opened so, user would not be able to...

Fedora 26 : php-pear-CAS (2017-2f3096ba16)

Changes in version 1.3.5 - Security Fixes : - Fix possible authentication bypass in validateCAS20 228 Gregory Boddin - Bug Fixes : - Fix file permissions non-executable 177 Remi Collet - Fixed translations Greek and Japanese 192 ikari7789 - Fix errors under phpdbg 204 MasonM - Fix logout...

Google Changes How it Analyzes Misbehaving Mobile Apps

Mobile apps in the Google Play store are categorized by their purpose, i.e., productivity or games. But there is a science to how apps are arranged, in particular around security and privacy features, and especially in holding back those apps whose behaviors pose a risk to mobile users. Google on...

Fedora 24 : globus-ftp-client / globus-gass-cache-program / globus-gass-copy / etc (2017-5f8ebbd2b1)

globus-ftp-client - Adapt to Perl 5.26 - POSIX::tmpnam no longer available - Remove some redundant tests to reduce test time globus-gass-cache-program - GT6 update globus-gass-copy - Don't attempt sshftp data protection without creds 9.24 - Checksum verification based on contribution from IBM 9.2...

A Man-in-the-Middle Attack against a Password Reset System

This is nice work: "The Password Reset MitM Attack," by Nethanel Gelerntor, Senia Kalma, Bar Magnezi, and Hen Porcilan: Abstract: We present the password reset MitM PRMitM attack and show how it can be used to take over user accounts. The PRMitM attack exploits the similarity of the registration...

SUSE-SU-2017:1675-1 Security update for xorg-x11-server

This update for xorg-x11-server provides the following fixes: - Remove unused function with use-after-free issue. bsc1025035 - Use arc4random to generate cookies. bsc1025084 - Prevent timing attack against MIT cookie. bsc1025029, CVE-2017-2624 - XDrawArc performance improvement. bsc1019649 -...

Extending the Microsoft Edge Bounty Program

Over the past ten months we have paid out over $200,000 USD in bounties. This collaboration with the research community has resulted in significant improvements in Edge security and has allowed us to offer more proactive security for our customers. Keeping in line with our philosophy of protectin...

openSUSE Security Update : lynis (openSUSE-2017-705)

This update for lynis fixes the following issues : Lynis 2.5.1 : - Improved detection of SSL certificate files - Minor changes to improve logging and results - Firewall tests: Determine if CSF is in testing mode The Update also includes changes from Lynis 2.5.0 : - CVE-2017-8108: symlink attack m...