Newly discovered critical vulnerabilities in the Exim message transfer agent (MTA) software allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and gain root privilege on mail servers with default or common configurations. […]
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S3 Ep30: AirDrop worries, Linux pests and ransomware truths [Podcast]
Listen now – latest episode – lots of fun but with a serious (and educational!) side.
New stealthy Linux malware used to backdoor systems for years
A recently discovered Linux malware with backdoor capabilities has flown under the radar for years, allowing attackers to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information from compromised devices. […]
Linux team in public bust-up over fake “patches” to introduce bugs
Embarrassed overreaction or righteous indignation? An academic research group has provoked the Linux crew to ban their whole university!
Windows 10 now lets you seamlessly run Linux GUI apps
Windows 10 now lets you run Linux GUI apps (X11 and Wayland) without using a virtual machine after Microsoft added GUI support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). […]
Linux bans University of Minnesota for committing malicious code
Linux kernel project maintainers have imposed a ban on the University of Minnesota (UMN) from contributing to the open-source Linux project after a group of UMN researchers were caught submitting a series of malicious code commits, or patches that deliberately introduced security vulnerabilities in the official Linux project. […]
Pwn2Own 2021: Zoom, Teams, Exchange, Chrome and Edge “fully owned”
Two lucky winners scooped $200k for just 30 minutes’ work – if you don’t count the days, weeks and months of meticulous effort beforehand
VMware fixes authentication bypass in data center security software
VMware has addressed a critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance that could allow attackers to bypass authentication after exploiting vulnerable servers. […]
S3 Ep25: Drained accounts, ransomware attacks and Linux badware [Podcast]
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Serious Security: The Linux kernel bugs that surfaced after 15 years
Anyone could have found these bugs, but everyone assumed someone would, and in the end, no one did. (Until now.)