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This update includes the changes in tzdata 2021e. Notable changes are: - - Fiji suspends DST for the 2021/2022 season.
A security vulnerability was discovered in gpsd, the Global Positioning System daemon. A stack-based buffer overflow may allow remote attackers to execute arbi…
Two issues have been found in jbig2dec, a JBIG2 decoder library. One issue is related to an overflow with a crafted image file. The other is related to a NULL …
Kishore Kumar Kothapalli discovered that the lame server cache in BIND, a DNS server implementation, can be abused by an attacker to significantly degrade reso…
Malicious actors have yet again published two more typosquatted libraries to the official NPM repository that mimic a legitimate package from Roblox, the game …
A cyber attackÂin Iran left petrol stations across the country crippled, disrupting fuel sales and defacing electronic billboards to display messages challengi…
It was discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain XBM image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPM file, a …
An out-of-bounds read and write flaw was discovered in the PHP-FPM code, which could result in escalation of privileges from local unprivileged user to the roo…
CVE-2020-24741, Do not attempt to load a library relative to $PWD
Heads up, Chrome and Firefox users! Try not to include any hyphens in your search…A Punctuation Error May Expose Users' Search Terms to ISPs Via Chrome And Fir…
Cloud and container adoption is on the rise, as organizations are increasingly recognizing the potential for rapid growth and evolution that cloud-based infras…
Mozilla on Monday disclosed it blocked two malicious Firefox add-ons installed by 455,000 users that were found misusing the Proxy API to impede downloading up…
Cybersecurity researchers on Friday disclosed a now-patched critical vulnerability in multiple versions of a time and billing system called BillQuick that's be…
A "potentially devastating and hard-to-detect threat" could be abused by attackers to collect users' browser fingerprinting information with the goal of spoofi…
The average cost of a data breach, according to the latest research by IBM, now stands atÂUSD 4.24 million, the highest reported. The leading cause? Compromise…
An out-of-bounds read and write flaw was discovered in the PHP-FPM code, which could result in escalation of privileges from local unprivileged user to the roo…
An out-of-bounds read and write flaw was discovered in the PHP-FPM code, which could result in escalation of privileges from local unprivileged user to the roo…
Researchers have spotted frequent occurrences of JavaScript obfuscation in regular sites that hackers have also…JavaScript Obfuscation Now Often Used By Hacker…
A "potentially devastating and hard-to-detect threat" could be abused by attackers to collect users' browser fingerprinting information with the goal of spoofi…
It is no secret that the OS you choose is a key determinant of your security online. After all, your OS is the most critical software running on your computer …
Several issues have been found in faad2, a freeware Advanced Audio Decoder player. They are related to heap buffer overflows or null pointer dereferences, whic…
The Russian-led REvil ransomware gang was felled by an active multi-country law enforcement operation that resulted in its infrastructure being hacked andÂtake…
Do not include params in exception when a call to set_options fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-20…
A vulnerability in the JNDI Realm of Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to authenticate using variations of a valid user name and/or to bypass some of the protec…