Security Leftovers
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Nvidia Patches Many Vulnerabilities in Windows, Linux Display Drivers
The most severe of the security defects is CVE‑2022‑34669 (CVSS score of 8.8), an issue in the user mode layer of Nvidia’s Windows driver that could be exploited by an unprivileged attacker to access or tamper with system files or other files that the driver uses.
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Mirai Botnet and Gafgyt DDoS Team Up Against SOHO Routers., (Tue, Dec 6th) [Ed: This is about bad passwords, but they spin it as "Linux"]
An attacker or compromised device made numerous attempts to connect to the target with weak ssh credentials before eventually authenticating.
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Security flaw in Florida tax website exposed filers' sensitive data
There were over 713,000 applications in the Department's pipeline at the time of the discovery, Mohsin said. Mohsin warned the Department about the flaw on October 27th.