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Microsoft Edge has finally arrived on Linux, with lots to love. It's fast; it looks good; it may work for you where Chrome builds won't; and it's really easy t…
Updated squid packages fix security vulnerability: Squid through 4.14 and 5.x through 5.0.5, in some configurations, allows information disclosure because of a…
cloud-init has the ability to generate and set a randomized password for system users. This functionality is enabled at runtime by passing cloud-config data su…
Red Hat's recent decision to discontinue CentOS 8 has left a critical void in the enterprise Linux market, shifting the spotlight onto other enterprise-ready L…
This update includes the changes in tzdata 2021e for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-2797-1. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fi…
Client-side TLS so that it verifies that the server hostname matches its certificate (Fixed in fossil 2.14.2). A data exfiltration bug in the server (Fixed in …
Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: Due to a data race in the crossbeam-deque in the crossbeam crate, one or more tasks in the worker qu…
It was discovered that there was an integer-overflow vulnerability in hiredis, a C client library for communicating with Redis databases. This occurred within …
Two security issues were found in TIFF, a widely used format for storing image data, as follows: CVE-2020-19131
Due to a data race in the crossbeam-deque in the crossbeam crate, one or more tasks in the worker queue could have been be popped twice instead of other tasks …
The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative that aims to hold contractors accountable for failing to meet re…
A previously undocumented threat actor has been identified as behind a string of attacks targeting fuel, energy, and aviation production industries in Russia, …
Security teams at mid-sized organizations are constantly faced with the question of "what does success look like?". At ActZero, their continued data-driven app…
Several problems were corrected in TagLib, a library for reading and editing audio meta data. CVE-2017-12678
Two issues have been found in curl, a command line tool and an easy-to-use client-side library for transferring data with URL syntax.
- fix disclosure of HTTP auth credentials via SNI data (CVE-2021-38165)
Most Linux distros are currently coming up short from offering adequate security around full disk encryption and authenticated boot. Prominent Linux developer …
An "insidious" new SMS smishing malware has been found targeting Android mobile users in the U.S. and Canada as part of an ongoing campaign that uses SMS text …
- fix disclosure of HTTP auth credentials via SNI data (CVE-2021-38165)
A newly discovered side-channel attack demonstrated on modern processors can be weaponized to successfully overcomeÂSite Isolation protectionsÂweaved into Goog…
In use for a decade as the de facto standard for communicating software bills of materials, The Linux Foundation has announced that the Software Package Data E…
The operators behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)ÂstagedÂa surprise return after a two-month hiatus following the widely publicized attack on techn…
A critical security vulnerability ( CVE-2021-40346 ) has been disclosed in HAProxy , a widely used open-source load balancer and proxy server, that could be ab…
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed inÂHAProxy, a widely used open-source load balancer and proxy server, that could be abused by an adversary…