Collaborate Disseminate
An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game’s buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either. Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports … Continue reading Indie Dev Finds That Linux Users Generate More, Better Bug Reports
“Apparently a bug in GPSD, the daemon responsible for deriving time from the GPS system, is going to trigger on October 24, 2021, jumping the time back to March of 2002,” writes Slashdot reader suutar. “There’s a fix that’s been committed since August,… Continue reading GPSD Bug Will Switch Your Time-Keeping Systems To March 2002 This Weekend, Unless You Update
By Waqas
Researchers dubbed it a “straightforward Linux kernel locking bug” that they exploited against Debian Buster’s 4.19.0.13-amd64 kernel.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Linux kernel memory corruption bug causes full … Continue reading New Linux kernel memory corruption bug causes full system compromise
LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. Although the severity of the flaw is classified as moderate, the implicati… Continue reading LibreOffice, OpenOffice Bug Allows Hackers To Spoof Signed Docs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Telegram patched another image self-destruction bug in its app earlier this year. This flaw was a different issue from the one reported in 2019. But the researcher who reported the bug isn’t please… Continue reading Researcher Refuses Telegram’s Bounty Award, Discloses Auto-Delete Bug
Bluetooth has become widely popular since its introduction in 1999. However, it’s also had its fair share of security problems over the years. Just recently, a research group from the …read more Continue reading Bluetooth Vulnerability: Arbitrary Code Execution On The ESP32, Among Others
Bugs! So many bugs! Latest episode – listen now… Continue reading S3 Ep50: Two 0-days plus another 0-day plus a fast food bug [Podcast]
If you ever get the feeling someone is watching you, maybe they are listening, too. At least they might be listening to what’s coming over your computer speakers thanks to …read more Continue reading Eavesdropping by LED
When a helpful feature (that you probably didn’t need) turns into an exploitable vulnerability… Continue reading How a gaming mouse can get you Windows superpowers!
A fix that was made in early June to the GNU C Library (glibc) introduced a new and nastier problem. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes via ZDNet: The first problem wasn’t that bad. As Siddhesh Poyarekar, a Red Hat principal software engineer wrote, “In … Continue reading Linux Glibc Security Fix Created a Nastier Linux Bug