Opportunities and Challenges in Securely Reusing and Repurposing Mobile Devices

An estimated 5.3 billion mobile phones became electronic waste in 2022. Many of these devices can be repurposed and used in different contexts to extend their lifetime and to reduce ecological impacts. An often overlooked aspect of smartphone reuse is cybersecurity: these devices embed...

CVE-2024-42283

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nexthop: Initialize all fields in dumped nexthops struct nexthopgrp contains two reserved fields that are not initialized by nlaputnhgroup, and carry garbage. This can be observed e.g. with strace edited for clarity: ip...

Rocky Linux 8 : firefox (RLSA-2024:0608)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:0608 advisory. - An out of bounds write in ANGLE could have allowed an attacker to corrupt memory leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affect...

CVE-2024-0749

A phishing site could have repurposed an about: dialog to show phishing content with an incorrect origin in the address bar. This vulnerability affects Firefox 122 and Thunderbird 115.7...

Coronavirus-Themed Cyberattacks Drop — Microsoft

A report from the Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team found that Covid-19-themed cyberattacks peaked in early March and are now trending significantly down. The report also noted that those attacks have been a drop in the bucket compared to overall threats observed over the last four...

DEF CON 2019: MacOS Gets a Malware Beatdown in Attack Demo

LAS VEGAS – On Friday, Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle showed how an attacker can repurpose someone else’s Mac malware, create false attribution flags and sidestep Mac anti-malware defenses with ease. The attack scenarios were his own and meant to serve as cautionary examples and reasons w...