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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 10th of January 2022 09:06:24 PM Filed under
Security
  • Microsoft: powerdir bug gives access to protected macOS user data
  • US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes

    In a hurry to park your car? Don't want to fumble around in your pocket to find cash for the parking meter, and don't have the correct payment app installed on your phone?

    Well, think carefully before rushing to scan the payment QR code stuck on the side of the meter - it may well be an attempt by fraudsters to phish your financial information.

    Police are warning that they have discovered bogus QR codes stuck onto public parking meters across Austin, Texas - a city where parking meters don't display QR codes, and only accept payment via coins, cards or a smartphone app.

  • Fake QR Codes on Parking Meters - Schneier on Security

    The City of Austin is warning about QR codes stuck to parking meters that take people to fraudulent payment sites.

  • Apache Software Foundation Security Report: 2021 : The Apache Software Foundation Blog

    Synopsis: This report explores the state of security across all of The Apache Software Foundation projects for the calendar year 2021. We review key metrics, specific vulnerabilities, and the most common ways users of ASF projects were affected by security issues.

    [...]

    The security committee of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) oversees and coordinates the handling of vulnerabilities across all of the 350+ Apache projects. Established in 2002 and composed of all volunteers, we have a consistent process for how issues are handled, and this process includes how our projects must disclose security issues.

    Anyone finding security issues in any Apache project can report them to security@apache.org where they are recorded and passed on to the relevant dedicated security teams or private project management committees (PMC) to handle. The security committee monitors all the issues reported across all the projects and keeps track of the issues throughout the vulnerability lifecycle.

    The security committee is responsible for ensuring that issues are dealt with properly and actively reminds projects of their outstanding issues and responsibilities. As a board committee, we have the ability to take action including blocking their future releases or, worst case, archiving a project if such projects are unresponsive to handling their security issues. This, along with the Apache License v2,0, are key parts of the ASF’s general oversight function around official releases, allowing the ASF to protect individual developers and giving users confidence to deploy and rely on ASF software.

    The oversight into all security reports, along with tools we have developed, gives us the ability to easily create metrics on the issues. Our last report covered the metrics for 2020.

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New FUD

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 04:40:19 AM.
  • Linux version of AvosLocker ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers [Ed: People are not meant to install this and it targets proprietary software anyway. FUD.]

    AvosLocker is the latest ransomware gang that has added support for encrypting Linux systems to its recent malware variants, specifically targeting VMware ESXi virtual machines.

    While we couldn't find what targets were attacked using this AvosLocker ransomware Linux variant, BleepingComputer knows of at least one victim that got hit with a $1 million ransom demand.

    Several months ago, the AvosLocker gang was also seen advertising its latest ransomware variants, the Windows Avos2 and AvosLinux, while making a point of warning affiliates not to attack post-soviet/CIS targets.

    "Out new variants (avos2 / avoslinux) have the best of both worlds to offer: high performance & high amount of encryption compared to its competitors," the gang said.

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