This Week in Security: Ghoscript in Imagemagick, Solarwinds, and DHCP Shenanigans

A PoC was just published for a potentially serious flaw in the Ghostscript interpreter. Ghostscript can load Postscript, PDF, and SVG, and it has a feature from Postscript that has …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Ghoscript in Imagemagick, Solarwinds, and DHCP Shenanigans

GitHub envisions a world with fewer software vulnerabilities

After five months in beta, the GitHub Code Scanning security feature has been made generally available to all users: for free for public repositories, as a paid option for private ones. “So much of the world’s development happens on GitHub that s… Continue reading GitHub envisions a world with fewer software vulnerabilities

Custom Weather Camera Feed With Software Tricks

With a gorgeous view of the Italian seaside, we’re not surprised [Danilo Larizza] had a couple IP cameras set up to pull in real-time views. But using a Raspberry Pi, an environmental sensor, and some software trickery to overlay the current (and naturally, perfect) weather conditions over the images? Now …read more

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SEMrush Plugs Remote Code Execution Bug in Its SaaS Platform

Web analytics firm plugs a hole in its platform that allowed attackers to open a reverse shell that could be used to attack the service. Continue reading SEMrush Plugs Remote Code Execution Bug in Its SaaS Platform

Yahoo Retires ImageMagick After Bugs Leak Server Memory

Researcher Chris Evans reported a new bug and showed how also used a previously known flaw in ImageMagick to leak Yahoo server data and steal images and authentication secrets. Continue reading Yahoo Retires ImageMagick After Bugs Leak Server Memory

18-Byte ImageMagick Hack Could Have Leaked Images From Yahoo Mail Server

After the discovery of a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to view private Yahoo Mail images, Yahoo retired the image-processing library ImageMagick.

ImageMagick is an open-source image processing library that lets users resize, s… Continue reading 18-Byte ImageMagick Hack Could Have Leaked Images From Yahoo Mail Server