Fill your Boots with credential stuffing protections

Yet again another company suffers a ‘hack’ that turns out to be nothing more than a credential stuffing attack. This time Boots have stopped customers using advantage card points to pay for products. This is after 600,000 Tesco accounts were compromised in the same way. No systems at Boots were...

Mobile Carrier Customer Service Ushers in SIM-Swap Fraud

Mobile carriers have left the door wide open to SIM-swap attacks, particularly when it comes to prepaid accounts, researchers have found. SIM swapping is a form of fraud that allows crooks to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication 2FA and crack online banking or other high-value accounts...

The vulnerability in the net/appletalk/aarp.c and net/appletalk/ddp.c functions of the AppleTalk subsystem in the Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability in the net/appletalk/aarp.c and net/appletalk/ddp.c functions of the AppleTalk subsystem in the Linux operating system is related to pointer swapping errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

systemd security, bug fix, and enhancement update

239-18.0.1 - fix netdev is missing for iscsi entry in /etc/fstab [email protected] Orabug: 25897792 - set 'RemoveIPC=no' in logind.conf as default for OL7.2 Orabug: 22224874 - allow dm remove ioctl to co-operate with UEK3 Vaughan Cao Orabug: 18467469 - add hv dynamic memory support Jerry...

The vulnerability of the ifilter_bank function in the Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ifilterbank function in the Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 FAAD2 is related to the swapping of the zero pointer. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to cause a service failure...

Chinese Face-Swapping App ZAO Sparks Privacy Concerns After Going Crazily Viral

What could be more exciting than seeing yourself starring alongside your favorite actor in a movie, music video, or TV program? Yes, that's possible—well, kind of, by using a new AI-based deepfake app that has gone viral in China over this weekend, climbing to the top of the free apps list in the...

How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Account Was Hacked

Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap...

kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability

A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts. An attacker with local access could use this information to reveal private data through a Spectre like side channel...

The Risk of Weak Online Banking Passwords

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there's a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves -- even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. This story is about how crooks increasingly are abusing third-party financial...

kernel security update

kernel - 2.6.18-419.0.0.0.14 - x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry Thomas Gleixner orabug 29821515 CVE-2018-12126 CVE-2018-12130 CVE-2018-12127 CVE-2019-11091 - x86/speculation/mds: Call VERW on NMI path when returning to user Patrick Colp orabug 29821515...

How Windows Defender Antivirus integrates hardware-based system integrity for informed, extensive endpoint protection

Detecting and stopping attacks that tamper with kernel-mode agents at the hypervisor level is a critical component of the unified endpoint protection platform in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP. It’s not without challenges, but the deep integration of Windows...

WALinuxAgent security update

2.2.32-1.0.1.el80.1 - Add oracle support to fix waagent.service build issue 2.2.32-1.el80.1 - wla-Add-fixes-for-handling-swap-file-and-other-nit-fixes.patch bz1711338 - Resolves: bz1711338 CVE-2019-0804 WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions rhel-8...

The vulnerability of the DBconn::GetLastError function in the pgagent scheduling software, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the DBconn::GetLastError function in the pgagent scheduling software from the pgagent package is related to errors during the swapping of the zero pointer 0x0000000000407209. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to trigger a service failure through a speciall...

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s interrupt handler `snd_korg1212_interrupt` allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the interrupt handler sndkorg1212interrupt in the Linux kernel’s sound/pci/korg1212/snd-korg1212.ko module is related to the swapping of the zero pointer. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure when a Korg 1212 device is connected. Thi...

CVE-2019-12870

An issue was discovered in PHOENIX CONTACT PC Worx through 1.86, PC Worx Express through 1.86, and Config+ through 1.86. A manipulated PC Worx or Config+ project file could lead to an Uninitialized Pointer and remote code execution. The attacker needs to get access to an original PC Worx or Confi...

The vulnerability of the TEEOS.img file (with a offset of 0x158608) in the SMC-processor’s GLOBAL_CMD_ID_LOAD_SECURE_APP function of the TEE OS Trusted Core in the microprogramming system of the Huawei Mate 9 Pro mobile phone. This vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a service failure, modify program algorithms (by changing the flags from TRUE/FALSE), or compromise critical data stored in physical memory.

The vulnerability of the TEEOS.img file with a offset of 0x158608 in the SMC-processor’s GLOBALCMDIDLOADSECUREAPP function of the TEE OS Trusted Core in the microprogramming of the Huawei Mate 9 Pro mobile phone is related to the swapping of an unauthorized pointer. Exploiting this vulnerability...

WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way Azure WaLinuxAgent creates swap files on resource disks, aka 'Azure Linux Agent Information Disclosure Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-3684

SUSE Manager until version 4.0.7 and Uyuni until commit 1b426ad5ed0a7191a6fb46bb83e98ae4b99a5ade created world-readable swap files on systems that don't have a swap already configured and don't have btrfs as filesystem...

CVE-2019-3684

SUSE Manager until version 4.0.7 and Uyuni until commit 1b426ad5ed0a7191a6fb46bb83e98ae4b99a5ade created world-readable swap files on systems that don't have a swap already configured and don't have btrfs as filesystem...

Information disclosure

SUSE Manager until version 4.0.7 and Uyuni until commit 1b426ad5ed0a7191a6fb46bb83e98ae4b99a5ade created world-readable swap files on systems that don't have a swap already configured and don't have btrfs as filesystem...