[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: nss-3.42.1-1.fc28

Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: firefox-65.0.1-1.fc29

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Microsoft to Kill Updates for Legacy OS Using SHA-1

Microsoft is in the process of phasing out use of the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 SHA-1 code-signing encryption to deliver Windows OS updates – announcing that customers running legacy OS versions will be required to have SHA-2 code-signing support installed on their devices by July 2019. No SHA-2...

Super-systemic IoT flaws

IoT security flaws were always systemic: by that I mean that if I find a flaw in my smart thermostat, it affects ALL of those thermostats. A security problem with one connected car leads to problems with ALL the connected cars using that same system. That led to incidents such as the Mirai botnet...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: firefox-65.0-1.fc28

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: firefox-65.0-1.fc29

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

#OTTuesday: Who Wins in a Format War - A Chat with Encoding.com

If you asked anyone 10 years ago who the winner would be in the over online video formats, you would have heard some strong opinions -- and some incorrect predictions. Video standards and formats will continue to change as long as users demand new ways to view content. AkamaiTV's Nelson Rodriguez...

The Promise and Peril of 5G

The next generation of mobile cellular technology known as fifth-generation wireless 5G is hitting a peak in the hype cycle, emerging as a major theme/5G.aspx at the Consumer Electronics Show CES this week. Wireless carriers are investing billions of dollars into the technology, which requires a...

#OTTuesday: Five Technologies Shaping the Future of OTT

The world of OTT is changing radically with new innovations, from player technologies to standards convergence, propelling the industry forward. As 2018 comes to a close, AkamaiTV sat down with DASH legend and Akamai's very own Will Law to get his pulse on the major trends and technologies that a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: firefox-64.0-4.fc29

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 5: Where Do We Go from Here?

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero Overall, our video conferencing research found a total of 11 bugs in WebRTC, FaceTime and WhatsApp. The majority of these were found through less than 15 minutes of mutation fuzzing RTP. We were surprised to find remote bugs so easily in code that is so...

Low severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.hive:hive-exec, org.apache.hive:hive, and org.apache.hive:hive-service

Apache Hive before 0.13.1, when in SQL standards based authorization mode, does not properly check the file permissions for 1 import and 2 export statements, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted URI...

GHSA-W4X9-4F5X-8JJ8 Low severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.hive:hive-exec, org.apache.hive:hive, and org.apache.hive:hive-service

Apache Hive before 0.13.1, when in SQL standards based authorization mode, does not properly check the file permissions for 1 import and 2 export statements, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted URI...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: firefox-63.0.3-1.fc28

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

A week in security (November 12 – 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we found out that TrickBot became a top business threat, so we took a deeper look at what's new with it. With Christmas just around the corner, the Secret Sister scam returned. We also touched on the security and privacy or lack thereof in smart jewelry, air traffi...

Scanning Akamai’s Edge Servers for Vulnerabilities, Correctly

Continuous monitoring of the Akamai Edge Platform for security vulnerabilities is an integral part of all engineering efforts at Akamai. In addition to our internal vulnerability management program, we engage with third-party assessors to periodically perform external scans of our systems since...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: pdns-4.1.5-1.fc28

The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms to all relevant DNS standards documents. Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: icecast-2.4.4-1.fc28

Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: icecast-2.4.4-1.fc27

Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open...

Flaws in Popular Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Decrypt Data

We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read this news carefully. Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in some of the popular self-encrypting solid state drives SSD that...