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Security Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2023,

updated Feb 23, 2023

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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]

=> ↺ Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]

Security updates have been issued by Debian (amanda, apr-util, and tiff), Fedora (apptainer, git, gssntlmssp, OpenImageIO, openssl, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (firefox and thunderbird), Red Hat (python3), SUSE (gnutls, php7, and python-Django), and Ubuntu (chromium-browser, libxpm, and mariadb-10.3, mariadb-10.6).

Cisco ClamAV anti-malware scanner vulnerable to serious security flaw [Ed: When your security software is a security hole]

=> ↺ Cisco ClamAV anti-malware scanner vulnerable to serious security flaw

Patch released for bug that poses a critical risk to vulnerable technologies

Announcing Istio 1.16.3

=> ↺ Announcing Istio 1.16.3

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.16.2 and Istio 1.16.3.

This release includes security fixes in Go 1.19.6 (released 2/14/2023) for the path/filepath, net/http, mime/multipart, and crypto/tls packages.

Activision Got Hacked but Didn't Tell Its Employees: Report

=> ↺ Activision Got Hacked but Didn't Tell Its Employees: Report

This week, gaming giant Activision revealed that a cybercriminal had managed to get inside of its network late last year. How did the hacker do that, exactly? Better take a guess.

IBM finds defenders are becoming more successful in detecting and preventing ransomware

=> ↺ IBM finds defenders are becoming more successful in detecting and preventing ransomware

New ‘Stealc’ information-stealing malware grows in popularity on dark web

=> ↺ New ‘Stealc’ information-stealing malware grows in popularity on dark web

Beware of this Disney+ impersonation email which leads to a phishing website

=> ↺ Beware of this Disney+ impersonation email which leads to a phishing website

This scam email offers a 12-month subscription to Disney+ for £2

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