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This is the Six-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC). This notification applies only to those …
The greatest threat facing most nations is no longer a standing army. It's a hacker with a computer who can launch a crippling cyber attack from thousands of m…
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in Exim, a mail transport agent. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service, or poten…
It's not a Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft is rolling out emergency out-of-band security patches for two new vulnerabilities, one of which is a critical Internet …
The world of connected consumer electronics, IoT, and smart devices is growing faster than ever with tens of billions of connected devices streaming and sharin…
It's Patch Tuesday again'the day of the month when both Adobe and Microsoft release security patches for vulnerabilities in their software.Adobe has just relea…
Many people worry that quantum computers will be able to crack certain codes used to send secure messages. The codes in question encrypt data using trapdoor" m…
The ransomware attacks in Baltimore and other US cities appear to have a common thread: they're using NSA tools on the agency's home soil. In-the-know security…
A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersec…
Cheap computers for the world's poor could mean big security headaches. The $100 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is inviting hackers to break test out and …
As reported by a subscriber to the incidents mailing list at . "It appears that perhaps tens of thousands of username/passwords for valid shell logins ALL ACRO…
Steve Gibson recounts the steps he took to stop his attack from being subjected to a distributed denial of service attack. "I believe you will be as fascinated…
Here's a short editorial on fractal encryption. "A fractally encrypted message cannot be broken even by the senders. It is so secure as to be that way for it's…
"BEIJING -- China has eased tough new restrictions on encryption technology, announcing that a vast category of consumer software and equipment -- including mo…
"Open-source based software solutions provider TurboLinux on Tuesday announced that its server product has been deployed, along with a cluster of IBM Netfinity…
This is a very interesting article about the future of cryptography. David Lammers writes ... "At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel unveiled a copy protection s…
Microsoft today issued a new security advisory warning billions of Windows users of two new critical, unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities that could let hackers…
The PHP security team has shared mitigation measures for a new remote code execution vulnerability that affects systems with non-default configurations and has…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo A…
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics…
Several vulnerabilities have been found in the ClamAV antivirus toolkit, which could result in denial of service or possibly other unspecified impact when proc…
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Erlang/OTP, a programming language and runtime environment. These issues could result in denial of service, HTTP req…
VLC 3.0.24: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/tags/3.0.24 Switch GUI to Qt6 (not for EPEL9) Re-enable AS-DCP plugin Disable RDP plugin Disable Real RTSP…
An online shop can be running normally while customers cannot reach it.