Category Archives: Security

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Finastra, which provid… Continue reading Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach→

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in the Linux utility “needrestart” — widely used on Ubuntu to manage service updates — allow attackers with local access to escalate privileges to root. The flaws were discovered by Qualys in need… Continue reading Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root→

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in the Linux utility “needrestart” — widely used on Ubuntu to manage service updates — allow attackers with local access to escalate privileges to root. The flaws were discovered by Qualys in need… Continue reading Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root→

Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure of a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. From a report: Most of the details about the bug are being kept under wraps… Continue reading D-Link Tells Users To Trash Old VPN Routers Over Bug Too Dangerous To Identify→

Apple has pushed out security updates that it says are “recommended for all users,” after fixing a pair of security bugs used in active cyberattacks targeting Mac users. From a report: In a security advisory on its website, Apple said it was aware of t… Continue reading Apple Says Mac Users Targeted in Zero-Day Cyberattacks→