Windows 10 Upgrade Spam Carries CTB-Locker Ransomware

In the week since a free upgrade to Windows 10 was made available, users have learned a of about a host of built-in privacy and security issues, the most troubling being a native feature called Wi-Fi Sense that grants access to your Wi-Fi network to contacts stored in a host of online services. N...

Machines Infected by Locker Ransomware Decrypted

Update: Computers infected by the Locker crypto-ransomware were today decrypted as promised by the malware’s author, who last week posted the decryption keys to an upload site and apologized for releasing the malware. Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer said the infected computers were decrypted...

New Spam Campaign Pushing CTB-Locker Ransomware

A new run of spam messages this week has been spotted dropping CTB-Locker ransomware. CTB-Locker, also known as Critroni, is a fairly new piece of crypto ransomware that encrypts hard drives and demands a ransom paid in Bitcoin to the attackers in exchange for the decryption key. Two days ago,...

New Wave of CTB-Locker/Critroni Ransomware Hitting Victims

There is a new wave of attacks delivering the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware, arriving through spam messages with a variety of lures in several different countries. CTB-Locker is one of the newer variants in the crypto ransomware family, a kind of malware that encrypts victims’ hard...

CVE-2014-5826

The Rix GO Locker Theme aka com.jiubang.goscreenlock.theme.rix.getjar application 1.20.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

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The Rix GO Locker Theme aka com.jiubang.goscreenlock.theme.rix.getjar application 1.20.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5826

The CVE-2014-5826 entry concerns the Android app Rix GO Locker Theme (com.jiubang.goscreenlock.theme.rix.getjar) version 1.20.2, which does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. This allows a man-in-the-middle to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via crafted certificates. A...

Critroni Crypto Ransomware Seen Using Tor for Command and Control

There’s a new kid on the crypto ransomware block, known as Critroni, that’s been sold in underground forums for the last month or so and is now being dropped by the Angler exploit kit. The ransomware includes a number of unusual features and researchers say it’s the first crypto ransomware seen...

Police Ransomware Malware Targeting Android Smartphones

After hacking PCs, Cyber criminals have now begun targeting Smartphones with a special piece of malicious software that locks up the devices until the victims pay a ransom to get the keys to unlock the phone, called Ransomware. Ransomware typically targets users' personal computers and has become...

Fedora Update for slock FEDORA-2013-9148

Check for the Version of slock OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for slock FEDORA-2013-9148 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: slock-1.1-3.fc19

This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of. It is stable and quite a lot people in this community are using it every day when they are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: slock-1.1-3.fc17

This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of. It is stable and quite a lot people in this community are using it every day when they are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: slock-1.1-3.fc18

This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of. It is stable and quite a lot people in this community are using it every day when they are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub...

USN-1716-1: gnome-screensaver vulnerability

It was discovered that gnome-screensaver did not start automatically after logging in. This may result in the screen not being automatically locked after the inactivity timeout is reached, permitting an attacker with physical access to gain access to an unlocked session...

Fedora Update for gnome-screensaver FEDORA-2010-1556

Check for the Version of gnome-screensaver OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gnome-screensaver FEDORA-2010-1556 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: gnome-screensaver-2.28.2-1.fc12

gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop...

Fedora Update for gnome-screensaver FEDORA-2008-3017

Check for the Version of gnome-screensaver OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gnome-screensaver FEDORA-2008-3017 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gnome-screensaver-2.20.0-11.fc8

gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gnome-screensaver-2.18.2-3.fc7

gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: xscreensaver-5.03-14.fc8

A modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System. More than 200 display modes are included in this package. This is a metapackage for installing all default packages related to XScreenSaver...