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Nvidia patches severe flaws affecting GeForce, Quadro NVS and Tesla

March 3, 2020 0 Comments cve vulnerabilities, cve‑2020‑5957, cve‑2020‑5958, cve‑2020‑5959, cve‑2020‑5960, cve‑2020‑5961, CVEs, geforce, gpu display, Linux, malware, Microsoft, NVIDIA, nvidia gpu, nvs, Operating Systems, Patches, Patching, quadro, security threats, tesla, vulnerability, Windows, windows gpu display driver

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:09:05 +0000

In all, the update covers five Windows and Linux desktop CVE vulnerabilities, including one rated as critical.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YitOMgSO498″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Networking attack gives hijackers VPN access

December 9, 2019 0 Comments CVE, cve-2019-14899, Linux, MacOS, Operating Systems, OS X, security threats, university of new mexico, virtual private network, vpn, vpn hack, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:31:50 +0000

Researchers have discovered a flaw in macOS, Linux, and several other operating systems that could let attackers hijack VPN connections.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/L7I8CdL_Udk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Critical DoS messaging flaw fixed in December Android update

December 5, 2019 0 Comments Android, android patching, CVEs, Google, Linux, Mobile, Operating Systems, patch level 2019-12-01, patch level 2019-12-05, Patching, Project Mainline, qualcomm, Samsung, security threats, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:25:24 +0000

Android’s December 2019 updates arrived this week, patching a small list of system and Qualcomm flaws across the operating system’s two patch levels.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Z6rqHUlLVrM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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How the Linux kernel balances the risks of public bug disclosure

November 15, 2019 0 Comments Bug, bug disclosure, cve-2019-17666, CVEs, Flaw, Linux, linux community, linux kernal, remote exploit, security threats, vulnerability, Wi-fi, wi-fi interface

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:27:40 +0000

A serious Wi-Fi flaw shows how Linux handles security in plain sight.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/k8HeNuageMA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Linux users warned to update libarchive to beat flaw

November 7, 2019 0 Comments chrome, cve-2019-18408, debian, freebsd, fuzzing, Google, libarchive, Linux, Operating Systems, security threats, ubuntu, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:16:51 +0000

The bug is identified as CVE-2019-18408, a high-priority ‘use-after-free’ bug when dealing with a failed archive.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/r2L9Nrq5wnQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Linux maintainer: Patching side-channel flaws is killing performance

October 31, 2019 0 Comments cve-2018-12126, cve-2018-12127, cve-2018-12130, cve-2019-11091, greg kroah-hartman, hyperthreading, Intel, Linux, meltdown, security threats, simultaneous multithreading (smt), spectre, vulnerability, zombieload

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:15:11 +0000

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the worst side-channel vulnerability of them all?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4OlRsV8RD_Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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EvilGnome – Linux malware aimed at your desktop, not your servers

July 26, 2019 0 Comments EvilGnome, Linux, malware, Podcast, shell script

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:59:41 +0000

EvilGnome was written to target the comparatively small but committed community who use Linux on their laptops.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/E4CH_8oYLak” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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EvilGnome – Linux malware aimed at your laptop, not your servers

July 25, 2019 0 Comments EvilGnome, Linux, malware, Podcast, shell script

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:59:41 +0000