According to the DDOS intelligence report for Q3 2016, Kaspersky Lab experts have noted an emerging trend – a growth in the number of attacks using encryption.
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Online games: 5 risks to your online security and privacy
We all love playing online games; from time to time until late in the night on our mobile devices, gaming consoles, or computer. One of the most amazing things about gaming now, is that we are connected to the whole world and can interact with each other in many ways. To do so, we are required to set up accounts on game platforms and talk to people we don’t know at all.
GLSA 201612-43: Node.js: Multiple vulnerabilities
DSA-3732 php5 – security update
Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting
language commonly used for web application development.
DSA-3733 apt – security update
Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that APT, the high level
package manager, does not properly handle errors when validating
signatures on InRelease files. An attacker able to man-in-the-middle
HTTP requests to an apt repository that uses InRelease files
(clearsigned Release files), can take advantage of this flaw to
circumvent the signature of the InRelease file, leading to arbitrary
code execution.