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ruby-openid performed discovery first, and then verification. This allowed an attacker to change the URL used for discovery and trick the server into connectin…
There is a privacy threat lurking on perhaps hundreds of millions of devices, that could enable potential attackers to track and profile users, by using inform…
A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in iTerm2 macOS terminal emulator app'one of the most popular open source replace…
After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social netw…
Microsoft today rolling out its October 2019 Patch Tuesday security updates to fix a total of 59 vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems and related softw…
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in openjpeg2, the open-source JPEG 2000 codec. This vulnerability is caused by insufficient validation of w…
A nationwide facial recognition ID program is underway in France, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator's protests about lack of consent, data security …
Unbound could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted NOTIFY query.
- Update to 2.16.3 - Side channel attack on deterministic ECDSA (CVE-2019-16910) Release notes: https://tls.mbed.org/tech- updates/releases/mbedtls-2.16.3-and-…
- Update to 2.16.3 - Side channel attack on deterministic ECDSA (CVE-2019-16910) Release notes: https://tls.mbed.org/tech- updates/releases/mbedtls-2.16.3-and-…
An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC in which the remote VNC server could inject arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web page via the messages propagated to …
1.6.7 Fix potential crash when reloading config. Client library: * Don't use / in autogenerated client ids, to avoid confusing with topics. * Fix mosquitto_max…
Max Kellermann reported a NULL pointer dereference flaw in libapreq2, a generic Apache request library, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service…
1.6.7 Fix potential crash when reloading config. Client library: * Don't use / in autogenerated client ids, to avoid confusing with topics. * Fix mosquitto_max…
1.6.7 Fix potential crash when reloading config. Client library: * Don't use / in autogenerated client ids, to avoid confusing with topics. * Fix mosquitto_max…
A vulnerability was discovered by Lukas Kupczyk of the Advanced Research Team at CrowdStrike Intelligence in OpenConnect, an open client for Cisco AnyConnect, …
Whilst everyone may be familiar with the end-to-end encryption feature within WhatsApp, it now is stepping up to launch anotherWhatsApp Is Planning To Introduc…
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a GIF is worth a thousand pictures.Today, the short looping clips, GIFs are everywhere'on your social media, on your m…
It was discovered that there was a remotely-exploitable null pointer dereference in libapreq2, a library for manipulating HTTP requests. For Debian 8 "Jessie",…
Phishing is still one of the widely used strategies by cybercriminals and espionage groups to gain an initial foothold on the targeted systems.Though hacking s…
Cases of document-based malware are steadily rising. 59 percent of all malicious files detected in the first quarter of 2019 were contained in documents.Due to…
An ex-Yahoo! employee has pleaded guilty to misusing his access at the company to hack into the accounts of nearly 6,000 Yahoo users in search of private and p…
This update of `expat` fixes the following security issue: * **CVE-2019-15903** -- Fix heap overflow triggered by `XML_GetCurrentLineNumber` (or `XML_GetCurre…
Three security issues were discovered in OpenSSL: A timing attack against ECDSA, a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode() and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey() and it was …