Monthly Archives: June 2016
Zuckerberg's Twitter And Pinterest Password Was 'dadada'
Valve Steam 3.42.16.13 Local Privilege Escalation
Valve Steam version 3.42.16.13 suffers from a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
HP Security Bulletin HPSBHF3548 1
HP Security Bulletin HPSBHF3548 1 – A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate his or her privileges on the system. Revision HPSBHF3548 of this advisory.
Avoiding UEFA Euro 2016 and Copa America Centenario scams
Two of the biggest soccer, or as the rest of the world calls the sport, football, events –Copa America Centenario and the UEFA Euro Cup – have fans across the Americas and Europe hyped. Fans are trying to get as close to the games as possible, either by getting tickets to attend a match or by playing soccer/football themed games. Cybercrooks are also big fans of major events like these and they, unfortunately, like to take advantage of fans’ enthusiasm.
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Beware of Copa America and Euro 2016 online scams
It’s only natural for die-hard fans to get excited when they see tickets on sale for either sold out games or for a cheaper price than the tickets sold on the official Copa America and UEFA sites. Cybercriminals are fully aware of how desired tickets to Copa America and the Euro Cup are and have set up phishing sites and phishing social media and email campaigns to trick people into buying phony tickets.
Debian Security Advisory 3594-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3594-1 – Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.
Debian Security Advisory 3548-3
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3548-3 – The upgrade to Samba 4.2 issued as DSA-3548-1 introduced several upstream regressions and as well a packaging regression causing errors on upgrading the packages. Updated packages are now available to address these problems.
Debian Security Advisory 3595-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3595-1 – Several issues have been discovered in the MariaDB database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MariaDB to the new upstream version 10.0.25. Please see the MariaDB 10.0 Release Notes for further details.
HP Security Bulletin HPSBUX03616 SSRT110128 2
HP Security Bulletin HPSBUX03616 SSRT110128 2 – Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified with HP-UX CIFS-Server (Samba). The vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely to allow Denial of Service (DoS), disclosure of information and unauthorized access. Revision 2 of this advisory.
Slackware Security Advisory – ntp Updates
Slackware Security Advisory – New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues.