The ‘Perfect Storm’ of Disinformation and Hacking

We live in an age of fake news, misinformation and disinformation. Recently, we have been falling for it – mostly. That is largely thanks to a confluence of social media, hacking and good old fashion disinformation campaigns, according to Matt “Pwn all the Things” Tait, a senior cybersecurity...

[USN-2630-1] QEMU vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2630-1 June 10, 2015 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivative...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2630-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2630-1 advisory. Matt Tait discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual PCNET driver. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or...