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Security Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 18, 2025

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LWN ☛ Security updates for Friday

=> ↺ Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (rsync and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium, mingw-python-jinja2, redict, and valkey), Gentoo (GIMP and pip), Oracle (.NET, fence-agents, ipa, kernel, python-virtualenv, raptor2, and rsync), Red Hat (.NET 8.0 and .NET 9.0), SUSE (apache2-mod_jk, git, git-lfs, kernel, python-Django, thunderbird, and xen), and Ubuntu (audacity, bcel, dotnet8, dotnet9, gimp-dds, harfbuzz, libxml2, poppler, rsync, and tqdm).

Federal News Network ☛ Noem calls for ‘smaller, more nimble’ CISA during nomination hearing

=> ↺ Noem calls for ‘smaller, more nimble’ CISA during nomination hearing

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Trump's pick to lead DHS, criticized CISA's work on misinformation and said the agency "has gotten far off mission."

Hackaday ☛ New Bambu Lab Firmware Update Adds Mandatory Authorization Control System

=> ↺ New Bambu Lab Firmware Update Adds Mandatory Authorization Control System

As per a recent Bambu Lab blog post, its FDM printers in the X1 series will soon receive a firmware update that adds mandatory authentication for certain operations, starting with the firmware update on January 23rd for the aforementioned FDM printers. These operations include performing firmware upgrades, initiating a print job (LAN or cloud), remote video access and adjusting parameters on the printer. Using the printer directly and starting prints from an SD card are not affected.

Bruce Schneier ☛ Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections

=> ↺ Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections

I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem.

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