Security Leftovers

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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libxstream-java, php-nette, and smarty3), Fedora (curl, openssl, spamassassin, and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (ant, batik, kernel, kernel-linus, nodejs-chownr, nodejs-yargs-parser, python-bottle, and ruby-em-http-request), openSUSE (curl and OpenIPMI), and Red Hat (openssl).
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What is a Buffer Overflow Attack – and How to Stop it
A buffer overflow occurs when the size of information written to a memory location exceeds what it was allocated. This can cause data corruption, program crashes, or even the execution of malicious code.
While C, C++, and Objective-C are the main languages which have buffer overflow vulnerabilities (as they deal more directly with memory than many interpreted languages), they are the foundation of much of the internet.
Even if the code is written in a 'safe' language (like Python), if it calls on any libraries written in C, C++, or Objective C, it could still be vulnerable to buffer overflows.
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GitHub Server Infrastructure Abused In Relentless Crypto-Mining Attack [Ed: Microsoft has another botnet]
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