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...

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...

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: firefox-63.0-2.fc27

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

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: firefox-63.0-2.fc28

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

au.org.consumerdatastandards:client-cli (>=1.1.1 <=2.4.1), fm.pattern:tokamak-authorization (=1.0.1) +17 more potentially affected by CVE-2018-1260 via org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 (>=2.1.0.RELEASE <=2.1.1.RELEASE)

org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 MAVEN version =2.1.0.RELEASE, =1.1.1, =1.2.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =1.9.0, =1.9.0, =1.3.0, =1.3.0, =1.3.4 and more Source cves: CVE-2018-1260 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-RRPM-PJ7P-7J9Qhttps://vulners.c...

October 18, 2018—KB4462925 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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October 18, 2018—KB4462921 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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Is FIDO the future instrument to prove our identity?

FIDO, short for Fast IDentity Online, is an industry consortium started in 2013 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. Among the founders were those who work in the financia...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: pdns-4.1.4-1.fc27.1

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...

‘Secure by Design’ & SB-327. Standards for a secure IoT?

The ‘Secure by Design’ guidance for consumer IoT security from the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport DCMS is coming shortly. In the meantime we’ve seen SB-327 from California legislators, mandating some basic security standards for consumer smart tech. Both are big steps...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: firefox-62.0.3-1.fc29

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

Wi-Fi Gets Simplified Version Numbers and Next Version is Wi-Fi 6

Do you know what is the latest version of Wi-Fi? It's okay if you don't know. It is — Wi-Fi is 802.11ac. I am sure many of us can't answer this question immediately because the Wi-Fi technology doesn't have a traditional format of version numbers… at least until yesterday. The Wi-Fi Alliance—the...