Suse developer Aleksa Sarai has uncovered a bug in the way that the container framework handles path names.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Flipboard data breach – what users should do now
Hugely popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.
Foreign spies may be hiding in your VPN, warns DHS
“…nation-state actors have demonstrated intent and capability to leverage VPN services and vulnerable users for malicious purposes.”
Facial recognition used to strip adult industry workers of anonymity
A name-and-shame database is supposed to “save” husbands from wives who have appeared on porn sites.
The cryptominer that kept coming back
A Monero cryptominer made a home on an Apache Tomcat server and just wouldn’t stay away.
New Zealand’s “hacked” budget was found on a website
Police close their investigation, concluding that New Zealand’s “wellbeing” budget wasn’t hacked.
A million devices still vulnerable to ‘wormable’ RDP hole
An internet-wide scan has revealed almost one million devices vulnerable to CVE-2019-0708.
What a teen grade hacker’s confession can teach us
“We had access to the grade book. Now we could change the grades.”
New research generates deepfake video from a single picture
Now it’s easier for attackers to produce deepfakes, even if the target doesn’t have much existing footage. Like the Mona Lisa.
Three tech-support scammers charged with ripping off the elderly
The defendants allegedly pulled in over $1.3 million over the course of about six years for unnecessary and undelivered tech support.