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Security Week ☛ Samsung Patches Zero-Day Exploited Against Android Users
Reported by Meta and WhatsApp, the vulnerability leads to remote code execution and was likely exploited by a spyware vendor.
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LWN ☛ Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups, kernel, and mysql-selinux and mysql8.4), Debian (cjson, jetty9, and shibboleth-sp), Fedora (bustle, cef, checkpointctl, chromium, civetweb, cups, forgejo, jupyterlab, kernel, libsixel, linenoise, maturin, niri, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, python-uv-build, ruff, rust-busd, rust-crypto-auditing-agent, rust-crypto-auditing-client, rust-crypto-auditing-event-broker, rust-matchers, rust-monitord, rust-monitord-exporter, rust-secret-service, rust-tracing-subscriber, rustup, tcpreplay, tuigreet, udisks2, uv, and xwayland-satellite), Oracle (cups, gdk-pixbuf2, kernel, mysql-selinux and mysql8.4, and php:8.2), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and multiple packages), Slackware (cups, kernel, and patch), and SUSE (busybox, busybox-links, chromedriver, chromium, cups-filters, curl, go1.25, jasper, java-11-openj9, java-17-openj9, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-devel, kubo, libssh-config, orthanc-gdcm, python-aiohttp, python-eventlet, python-h2, and xen).
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LinuxConfig ☛ Chromium 140.0.7339.80 Security Update Released: Critical Vulnerability Fixes for GNU/Linux Users
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The Register UK ☛ After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'
Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI
It's Monday morning, and a week of possibilities presents itself to IT pros everywhere. Which is why The Register brings you another edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we remind you what not to do with your day, your week, and your career, by sharing stories of your worst workplace mistakes and the contortions you made to survive them.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Wilma" who told us that while at university she volunteered with a group working on the student association's website.