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Security: IPFire, Chaos Communication Congress, Tiger and More

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 8th of January 2019 11:58:02 AM Filed under
Security
  • Have you thought about replacing your Cisco?

    The number of security vulnerabilities is rising. 2018 is another record year. There is a couple of theories why that is: Some say it is only more vulnerabilities being reported. Others are saying more money is being spent on finding vulnerabilities. What ever it is, it is a positive thing. Every vulnerability that is found can be fixed and not be used as a zero-day vulnerability.

    Regardless of that, 2018 has been an especially bad year for Cisco. It feels like there has not been a day without a major security vulnerability in one of their products. There is a total of 16 CVE reports on Cisco's flagship firewall appliance in 2018.

  • Building c-base @ 35C3 with Flowhub

    The Chaos Communication Congress is a major fixture of the European security and free software scene, with thousands of attendees. As always, the “mother of all hackerspaces” had a big presence there, with a custom booth that we spend nearly two weeks constructing.

  • Tiger – The Unix Security Audit and Intrusion Detection Tool

    Tiger is a free, open source collections of shell scripts for security audit and host intrusion detection, for Unix-like systems such as Linux. It’s a security checker written entirely in shell language and employs various POSIX tools in the backend. It’s major purpose is to check the system configuration and status.

    It’s very extensible than the other security tools, and has a good configuration file. It scans system configuration files, file systems, and user configuration files for possible security problems and reports them.

    In this article, we will show how to install and use Tiger security checker with basic examples in Linux.

  • New hardware-agnostic side-channel attack works against Windows and Linux [Ed: OS-agnostic, not hardware-agnostic, but Catalin Cimpanu likes to put "Linux" in headlines for hits (selling ads for CBS/ZDNet in this case)]
  • Early Warning Network [cracked], bogus threats sent out

    Hackers gained access to the database of a New South Wales-based company that sends free weather warnings on the weekend, through the use of stolen credentials and sent bogus alerts to some users of the system.

  • Microsoft pulls Office 2010 updates because they're big in Japan. As in, big pain in the ASCII

    Microsoft has taken down its latest update for Office 2010 following reports the tweak was causing some versions of Excel to crash.

    Redmond said the KB4032217, KB4461627, KB4032225, and KB4461616 updates, each released on January 2 for PCs running Office 2010, were no longer available.

    Redmond notes that those who have installed the non-security patches "may experience difficulties in Microsoft Excel or other applications," and should uninstall the update to return things to normal.

    Other versions of Office were not affected by the issues.

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