Joomla Releases Security Update for CMS

Original release date: December 22, 2015

Joomla has released version 3.4.7 of its content management system (CMS) software to address two vulnerabilities. Exploitation of one of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected website.

Users and administrators are encouraged to review the Joomla Release News and US-CERT’s Alert on Content Management Systems Security and Associated Risks and apply the necessary update.


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Encrypted Email Servers Seized by German Authorities After School Bomb Threats

In the wake of a hoax bomb threat, all public schools in Los Angeles were closed for a day last week, and now German authorities have seized an encrypted email server.

But, Does that make sense?

In a video statement posted on Monday, the administrator of Cock.li – an anonymous email provider service – said German authorities had seized a hard drive from one of its servers that used to

giflib 5.1.1 Heap Overflow

A heap overflow may occur in the giffix utility included in giflib-5.1.1 when processing records of the type IMAGE_DESC_RECORD_TYPE due to the allocated size of LineBuffer equaling the value of the logical screen width, GifFileIn->SWidth, while subsequently having GifFileIn->Image.Width bytes of data written to it.

Suricata IDPE 2.0.11

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It’s capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.