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IBM has spoken out against Australia's controversial 'anti-encryption' laws, claiming they undermine previous work to strengthen the country's defenses.ÂThe ve…
Libidn 2.3.0 (released 2019-11-14) has assigned CVE-2019-12290 which was fixed by the roundtrip feature introduced in 2.2.0 (commit 241e8f48) * Update the data…
Adding one more to the count of data breaches this year, now joins the cellular firm T-Mobile. Recently, T-Mobile hasT-Mobile Reveals A Security Breach Affecti…
The Linux kernel is the core component of the Linux operating system, maintaining complete control over everything in the system. It is the interface between a…
Libidn 2.3.0 (released 2019-11-14) has assigned CVE-2019-12290 which was fixed by the roundtrip feature introduced in 2.2.0 (commit 241e8f48) * Update the data…
The LinuxSecurity team thanksÂHoracio Zambrano for contributing this article.Enterprises using Linux for their cloud or data center servers may be faced with a…
A new and particularly troublesome ransomware variant has been identified in the wild. Dubbed NextCry, this nasty strain of ransomware encrypts data on NextClo…
It was discovered that there were multiple double free vulnerabilities in python-psutil, a Python module providing convenience functions for accessing system p…
The popular VPN provider, NordVPN, recently announced a server breach at a third-party data center. This breach has led many users to question what the best st…
The popular VPN provider, NordVPN, recently announced a server breach at a third-party data center. This breach has led many users to question what the best st…
An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, and evolution-ews is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this upda…
The Mozilla Foundation and a group of rights groups and non-profits have penned an open letter to Facebook and Google urging them to halt political advertising…
The Russian government calls it the sovereign internet' law and from 1 November it compels the country's ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from t…
IBM developers and others continue exploring the potential for address space isolation in the Linux kernel to reduce the risk of leaking sensitive data in atta…
**PHP version 7.3.11** (24 Oct 2019) **Core:** * Fixed bug php#78535 (auto_detect_line_endings value not parsed as bool). (bugreportuser) * Fixed bug php#78620…
Updated aspell packages fix security vulnerability: libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/…
**PHP version 7.2.24** (24 Oct 2019) **Core:** * Fixed bug php#78535 (auto_detect_line_endings value not parsed as bool). (bugreportuser) * Fixed bug php#7862…
A group of Chinese hackers carrying out political espionage for Beijing has been found targeting telecommunications companies with a new piece of malware desig…
Two grey hat hackers have pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber, LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of milli…
**PHP version 7.3.11** (24 Oct 2019) **Core:** * Fixed bug php#78535 (auto_detect_line_endings value not parsed as bool). (bugreportuser) * Fixed bug php#78620…
Brain computer interface technology is developing fast. But just because we can read data from others' minds, should we? One thing is for sure: the implication…
This update provides the final 1.3.2 release (previously the package was 1.3.2 beta). It also includes the previously-omitted database schema directory (resolv…
This update includes the changes in tzdata 2019c for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-1957-1. For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been f…
Applications tracking users' locations have been a pain in the neck for some time. While location data seems necessary informationiOS 13 Now Warns Users Of Bac…