WhatsApp, Linux Kernel, & Marcin Szary – Hack Naked News #218

    This week, hacking the unhackable eyeDisk USB stick, how to brick all Samsung mobile phones, how Twitter shared user location data through advertising, a 0-Day flaw used to install spyware on phones, and a Linux kernel flaw allows remote code execu… Continue reading WhatsApp, Linux Kernel, & Marcin Szary – Hack Naked News #218

Apple Fixes Two Zero-Day iOS Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Apple’s newly released iOS 12.1.4 includes fixes for two serious vulnerabilities that are already used by hackers. The update also fixes the FaceTime bug that allowed users to remote enable other peoples’ microphones. The two vulnerabiliti… Continue reading Apple Fixes Two Zero-Day iOS Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Kubernetes cloud computing bug could rain data for attackers

Kubernetes, a tool that powers much modern native cloud infrastructure, just got its first big security bug – and it’s a mammoth one. Continue reading Kubernetes cloud computing bug could rain data for attackers

Google Adds Control-Flow Integrity to Beef up Android Kernel Security

Google has added a new security feature to the latest Linux kernels for Android devices to prevent it against code reuse attacks that allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by exploiting control-flow hijacking vulnerabilities.

In code reu… Continue reading Google Adds Control-Flow Integrity to Beef up Android Kernel Security

Google Hacker Discloses New Linux Kernel Vulnerability and PoC Exploit

A cybersecurity researcher with Google Project Zero has released the details, and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a high severity vulnerability that exists in Linux kernel since kernel version 3.16 through 4.18.8.

Discovered by white hat hacker J… Continue reading Google Hacker Discloses New Linux Kernel Vulnerability and PoC Exploit

Half of SMBs Experienced a Security Breach Last Year

More than half of small and medium-sized businesses have experienced a data breach and 1 in 5 said it cost them between $1 and $2.5 million, according to a new study by Cisco Systems that surveyed 1,816 SMBs across 26 countries. Cisco’s “S… Continue reading Half of SMBs Experienced a Security Breach Last Year

New Linux Kernel Bug Affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions

Security researchers have published the details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits of an integer overflow vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could allow an unprivileged user to gain superuser access to the targeted system.

The vulnerability, disc… Continue reading New Linux Kernel Bug Affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions

Linus Torvalds Apologizes For His Rude Behavior—Takes Time Off

What just happened would definitely gonna surprise you.

Linus Torvalds—father of the Linux open-source operating system—finally admitted his behavior towards other developers in the Linux community was hurting people and Linux.

In a surprising move t… Continue reading Linus Torvalds Apologizes For His Rude Behavior—Takes Time Off

CVE-2018-14619: New Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability

A new Linux kernel vulnerability identified as CVE-2018-14619 has been discovered by Red Hat Engineering researchers Florian Weimer and Ondrej Mosnacek. More particularly, the flaw was found in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel. CVE-2018-14619 T… Continue reading CVE-2018-14619: New Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability