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Security Leftovers

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 24th of April 2020 02:04:43 AM Filed under
Security
  • Security updates for Thursday

    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (openssl), openSUSE (freeradius-server, kernel, thunderbird, and vlc), Oracle (git, java-1.7.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk, and java-11-openjdk), SUSE (ardana-ansible, ardana-barbican, ardana-db, ardana-monasca, ardana-mq, ardana-neutron, ardana-octavia, ardana-tempest, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-openstack, documentation-suse-openstack-cloud, memcached, openstack-manila, openstack-neutron, openstack-nova, pdns, python-amqp, rubygem-puma, zookeeper, cups, kernel, ovmf, and pacemaker), and Ubuntu (openjdk-8, openjdk-lts and re2c).

  • Daniel Stenberg: Report: curl’s bug bounty one year in

    On April 22nd 2019, we announced our current, this, incarnation of the curl bug bounty. In association with Hackerone we now run the program ourselves, primarily funded by gracious sponsors. Time to take a closer look at how the first year of bug bounty has been!

  • Firefox’s Bug Bounty in 2019 and into the Future

    Firefox has one of the oldest security bug bounties on the internet, dating back to 2004. From 2017-2019, we paid out $965,750 to researchers across 348 bugs, making the average payout $2,775 – but as you can see in the graph below, our most common payout was actually $4,000!

  • Multiple Malware Campaigns Demonstrate How Cybercriminals Exploit SSH Keys
  • How Healthcare Providers Can Prevent Security Vulnerabilities

    Unfortunately, despite strict compliance regulations, there are still many exploited vulnerabilities misconfigurations that occur in healthcare systems. These issues can result in serious breaches of security and patient privacy and must be corrected.

    Some of these issues are outside of your control. For example, if vendors unknowingly leave bugs in software or have not yet provided a patch for known vulnerabilities. Others occur due to poor management or lack of best practices. For example, not properly restricting access privileges or not encrypting data.

    [...]

    The consequences of a regular data breach range from monetary fines to loss of brand authority, and sometimes even bankruptcy. However, the consequences of a breached healthcare environment can be a matter of life and death.

    To ensure the security of healthcare data, providers should implement a number of strategies. Security strategies for healthcare providers include enforcing granular access controls, as well as staying updated on vulnerabilities and prioritizing mitigation on a continual basis.

    For improved visibility and better control, you can also centralize your overall security. However, what could help most is establishing a security culture that educates personnel and reduces the scope of insider threats. This can help enlist connected users to the overall protection of healthcare networks, systems, and data.

  • Microsoft Issues Out-Of-Band Security Update For Office, Paint 3D

    Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update for Microsoft Office, Office 365 ProPlus and Paint 3D. The applications are affected by multiple Autodesk vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could enable remote code execution.

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