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Security and Digital Restrictions (DRM) Leftovers

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of January 2020 03:16:37 PM Filed under
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  • Security updates for Thursday

    Security updates have been issued by openSUSE (chromium, libredwg, and thunderbird), Oracle (apache-commons-beanutils, java-1.8.0-openjdk, libarchive, and python-reportlab), Red Hat (kernel), Scientific Linux (apache-commons-beanutils, libarchive, and openslp), SUSE (java-11-openjdk), and Ubuntu (e2fsprogs, graphicsmagick, python-apt, and zlib).

  • The Common Pitfalls of Cloud Native Software Supply Chains

    Daniel Shapira talks about some of the common security vulnerabilities found in cloud-native environments, and why it is important to take security measures immediately to protect instances in the cloud.

  • Microsoft Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming

    An unpatched remote code-execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer is being actively exploited in the wild, Microsoft has announced. It’s working on a patch. In the meantime, workarounds are available.

    The bug (CVE-2020-0674) which is listed as critical in severity for IE 11, and moderate for IE 9 and IE 10, exists in the way that the jscript.dll scripting engine handles objects in memory in the browser, according to Microsoft’s advisory, issued Friday.

    The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user – meaning that an adversary could gain the same user rights as the current user.

  • [Cracker] Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices

    A [cracker] has published a list of credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices online on a popular [cracking] forum in what’s being touted as the biggest leak of Telnet passwords to date, according to a published report.

  • How to stop typosquatting attacks

    Cybercriminals are turning to social engineering to try to trick unsuspecting people into divulging private information or valuable credentials. It is behind many phishing scams where the attacker poses as a reputable company or organization and uses it as a front to distribute a virus or other piece of malware.

    One such risk is typosquatting, a form of social engineering attack that tries to lure users into visiting malicious sites with URLs that are common misspellings of legitimate sites. These sites can cause significant damage to the reputation of organizations that are victimized by these attackers and harm users who are tricked into entering sensitive details into fake sites. Both system administrators and users need to be aware of the risks and take steps to protect themselves.

    Open source software, which is developed and tested by large groups in public repositories, is often lauded for its security benefits. However, when it comes to social engineering schemes and malware implantation, even open source tools can fall victim.

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  • Sonos Will Stop Updating Older Speakers, Even Though 92% 'Still In Use'

           

    Sonos will stop updating its older speakers and hardware in May, the company has announced.

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  • Tale of Jailbreaking Disobedient IoT Appliances Shortlisted for the National Canada Reads Prize

           

             

    In Unauthorized Bread, a novella by EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow published in his 2019 Tor Books collection Radicalized, a refugee named Salima leads a mass jailbreaking of the locked-down Internet of Things appliances in a subsidized housing unit in Boston. With this act, Salima and others risk eviction, felony prosecution under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and deportation to the countries they fled in fear of their lives.

             

    Radicalized has just been named a finalist in Canada Reads, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national book prize. In honor of the occasion, Ars Technica has published Unauthorized Bread in full.

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