Lock and Code S1Ep5: Mythbusting and understanding VPNs with JP Taggart

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to JP Taggart, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, about VPNs—debunking their myths, explaining their actual capabilities, and providing some advice...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20790

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x, when used with pypolicyd-spf 2.0.2, allows attacks that bypass SPF and DMARC authentication in situations where the HELO field is inconsistent with the MAIL FROM field...

CVE-2019-20790

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x, when used with pypolicyd-spf 2.0.2, allows attacks that bypass SPF and DMARC authentication in situations where the HELO field is inconsistent with the MAIL FROM field...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12272

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x allows attacks that inject authentication results to provide false information about the domain that originated an e-mail message. This is caused by incorrect parsing and interpretation of SPF/DKIM authentication results, as demonstrated by the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12272

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x allows attacks that inject authentication results to provide false information about the domain that originated an e-mail message. This is caused by incorrect parsing and interpretation of SPF/DKIM authentication results, as demonstrated by the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20790

OpenDMARC through 1.3.2 and 1.4.x, when used with pypolicyd-spf 2.0.2, allows attacks that bypass SPF and DMARC authentication in situations where the HELO field is inconsistent with the MAIL FROM field...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: thunderbird-68.7.0-1.fc32

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client...

Apple Pushes Back Against Zero-Day Exploit Claims

Apple has pushed back against claims that two zero-day bugs in its iPhone iOS have been exploited for years, saying it’s found no evidence to support such activity. Apple officials made the statement in response to a widely disseminated report published Wednesday by ZecOps, which claimed that two...

CVE-2020-12063

A certain Postfix 2.10.1-7 package could allow an attacker to send an email from an arbitrary-looking sender via a homoglyph attack, as demonstrated by the similarity of \xce\xbf to the 'o' character. This is potentially relevant when the /etc/postfix/senderlogin feature is used, because a spoofe...

PT-2020-13021 · Postfix · Postfix

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Postfix version 2.10.1-7 Description: The issue allows an attacker to send an email from an arbitrary-looking sender via a homoglyph attack, as demonstrated by the similarity of xcexbf to the 'o' character. This is potentially relevant when t...

iOS exploit lets attackers access default iPhone mail app

By Sudais Asif The iOS exploit in the discussion is being used by hackers since 2018 but it existed since 2012. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: iOS exploit lets attackers access default iPhone mail app...

Apple Patches Two iOS Zero-Days Abused for Years

Update Researchers are reporting two Apple iOS zero-day security vulnerabilities affecting its Mail app on iPhones and iPads. Impacted are iOS 6 and iOS 13.4.1. Apple patched both vulnerabilities in iOS 13.4.5 beta, released last week. A final release of iOS 13.4.5 is expected soon. Both...

iOS Mail bug allows remote zero-click attacks

On Monday, ZecOps released a report about a couple concerning vulnerabilities with the Mail app in iOS. These vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the Mail app or the maild process that assists the Mail app behind the scenes. Most concerning, though, is the fact th...

New iPhone Zero-Day Discovered

Last year, ZecOps discovered two iPhone zero-day exploits. They will be patched in the next iOS release: Avraham declined to disclose many details about who the targets were, and did not say whether they lost any data as a result of the attacks, but said "we were a bit surprised about who was...

Zero-Day Warning: It's Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails

Watch out Apple users! The default mailing app pre-installed on millions of iPhones and iPads has been found vulnerable to two critical flaws that attackers are exploiting in the wild, at least, from the last two years to spy on high-profile victims. The flaws could eventually let remote hackers...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2020-9818

Apple iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS Mail contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability which may allow memory modification or application termination when processing a maliciously crafted mail message...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2020-9819

Apple iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS Mail contains a memory corruption vulnerability that may allow heap corruption when processing a maliciously crafted mail message...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: thunderbird-68.7.0-1.fc31

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client...

CVE-2020-2878

CVE-2020-2878 affects Oracle E-Business Suite iSupport (Mail component), with affected versions 12.1.1–12.1.3. The connected Red Hat/Oracle/NVD and vuln enrichment entries confirm an unauthenticated, network-accessible vulnerability via HTTP in Oracle iSupport that can lead to unauthorized access...

MS15-131: Description of the security update for Word 2013: December 8, 2015

Resolves vulnerabilities in Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file.SummaryThis 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...