Monthly Archives: May 2016
Millions Of Hacked LinkedIn IDs Advertised For Sale
Ukranian Hacker Busted After Making $30 Million Stealing Press Releases
CVE-2016-0707 (ambari)
The agent in Apache Ambari before 2.1.2 uses weak permissions for the (1) /var/lib/ambari-agent/data and (2) /var/lib/ambari-agent/keys directories, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in the directories.
CVE-2016-0731 (ambari)
The File Browser View in Apache Ambari before 2.2.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to read arbitrary files via a file: URL in the WebHDFS URL configuration.
CVE-2016-2077
VMware Workstation 11.x before 11.1.3 and VMware Player 7.x before 7.1.3 on Windows incorrectly access an executable file, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors.
CVE-2016-4480
The guest_walk_tables function in arch/x86/mm/guest_walk.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly handle the Page Size (PS) page table entry bit at the L4 and L3 page table levels, which might allow local guest OS users to gain privileges via a crafted mapping of memory.
Hacker puts up 167 Million LinkedIn Passwords for Sale
LinkedIn’s 2012 data breach was much worse than anybody first thought.
In 2012, LinkedIn suffered a massive data breach in which more than 6 Million users accounts login details, including encrypted passwords, were posted online by a Russian hacker.
Now, it turns out that it was not just 6 Million users who got their login details stolen.
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Latest reports emerged that the 2012
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Core Tor Developer who accuses FBI of Harassment moves to Germany
One of TOR’s primary software developers, Isis Agora Lovecruft, has fled to Germany, following the threat of a federal subpoena.
Lovecruft is a well-known cryptographer and lead software developer for Tor project from many years. She has worked for a variety of other security and encryption products, such as Open Whisper Systems and the LEAP Encryption Access Project.
Since November 2015,
