In the keynote, Kovacs outlined AVG’s mission to create a safer Internet for everyone.
In our modern connected world, the lives of consumers are more exposed now than ever before in history. A wide range of our actions online are monitored, tracked and scrutinized, not always towards benevolent ends.
AVG recently conducted a round of research with MEF which shows that more and more people are demanding trust, and it is becoming a real factor in decision making around technology.
To end, Kovacs issued a call to arms to challenge the existing model and create what he calls a Trust Revolution.
The slapd service is stopped during the package upgrade to perform
upgrade on the OpenLDAP DB. The service wasn’t restarted after the
upgrade if the service was running before. This update fixes this
issue.
Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities:
The tor package has been updated to version 0.2.4.26, which fixes
possible crashes that may be remotely trigger-able, which would
result in a denial of service, and also fixes a few other bugs.
See the release announcement for details.
Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in flac:
Heap-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c in libFLAC before 1.3.1
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .flac
file (CVE-2014-9028).
Stack-based buffer overflow in stream_decoder.c in libFLAC before
1.3.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted
.flac file (CVE-2014-8962).
The updated packages provides a solution for these security issues.
