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Hackers could take control of victims’ computers just by tricking them into clicking on a Steam invite to play Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Motherboard reports, citing a bug filing review. From a report: A bug in the game engine used in Counter St… Continue reading Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers To Take Over a PC With a Steam Invite
“OpenSSL, the most widely used software library for implementing website and email encryption, has patched a high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for hackers to completely shut down huge numbers of servers,” reports Ars Technica:
On Thursday… Continue reading OpenSSL Fixes a High-Severity Flaw That Allowed Crashing of Servers
Anyone could have found these bugs, but everyone assumed someone would, and in the end, no one did. (Until now.) Continue reading Serious Security: The Linux kernel bugs that surfaced after 15 years
“Three recently unearthed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, located in the iSCSI module used for accessing shared data storage facilities, could allow root privileges to anyone with a user account,” reports SC Media:
“If you already had execution o… Continue reading Three Flaws in the Linux Kernel Since 2006 Could Grant Root Privileges
“In a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List Wednesday, founding developer Linus Torvalds warned the world not to use the 5.12-rc1 kernel in his public git tree…” writes Ars Technica:
As it turns out, when Linus Torvalds flags some code dontuse, h… Continue reading Torvalds Warns the World: Don’t Use the Linux 5.12-rc1 Kernel
It’s déjà vu all over again! New month, new Chrome zero-day bug being exploited in the wild. Continue reading Another Chrome zero-day exploit – so get that update done!
Brave Browser had a privacy issue that leaked the Tor onion URL addresses you visited to your locally configured DNS server, “exposing the dark web websites you visit…”, writes Bleeping Computer.
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes their repor… Continue reading Brave Privacy Bug Exposed Tor Onion URLs To Your DNS Provider
iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums, has confirmed that a software update has been causing issues for some users of its i7 and s9 robots and that it’s working on another one to prevent future issues. The catch? It might be a bit before things g… Continue reading iRobot Says It’ll Be a Few Weeks Until It Can Clean Up Its Latest Roomba Software Update Mess
According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the inmate management software cannot interpret current sentencing laws. From a report: K… Continue reading Software Bug Keeping Hundreds Of Inmates In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates
New reader allquixotic writes: Since late January, most users running a pre-installed Lenovo image of Windows 10 has been bitten by a bug in Lenovo’s System Update Service (SUService.exe) causing it to constantly occupy a CPU thread. This was noticed b… Continue reading A Bug in Lenovo System Update Service is Driving Up CPU Usage and Prompting Fan Noise in Laptops and Desktops, Customers Say