Corrective releases package Samba 4.15.2, 4.14.10, and 4.13.14 eliminates eight vulnerabilities, most of which can lead to a complete compromise of the Active Directory domain. It is noteworthy that one of the problems was corrected in 2016, and five – from 2020, though one correction led to the inability to run winbindd in the presence […]
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This page is a step-by-step installation and configuration guide to get an instance of TheHive 4 up and running. This guide is illustrated with examples for Debian package-based systems, and for installation from binary packages.
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Apiiro released Dependency Combobulator, a modular and extensible open-source toolkit to detect and prevent dependency confusion attacks. The toolkit allows organizations to safeguard against this newly uncovered type of risk, which has been on the rise this year as a key vector in supply chain attacks targeting dependencies within software packages. Dependency confusion compromises the […]
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Researchers at Claroty and JFrog have published a security audit of BusyBox, a widely used embedded device that offers a set of standard UNIX utilities in a single executable file. During the check, 14 vulnerabilities were identified, which have already been eliminated in the August release of BusyBox 1.34. Learn more about the discovered vulnerabilities […]
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Cisco has released new releases of the free ClamAV antivirus package 0.104.1 and 0.103.4. Recall that the project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, which develops ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed …
Cybersecurity is extremely important – now more than ever. If you start to do research, however, you’ll find a debate going on about which operating system is the safest. These days, more IT professionals and companies are preaching the benefits of Linux systems. There are definitely some security advantages to the platform. But like everything […]
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The exploit, patched since April, only affects customers running on-premises versions of GitLab and doesn’t affect GitLab.com.
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Passwords are a weak link in enterprise security. As users struggle with requirements for complex passwords and password managers, bad habits multiply: post-it notes on screens, Word docs with passwords listed, retaining default passwords, reused passwords, and other workarounds. That’s why cybercriminals go after passwords so often. Once a hacker steals credentials, they can enter sensitive systems or […]
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eSecurityPlanet’s Jeff Bart reports that researchers have outlined a method that could be used by bad actors to push vulnerabilities into source code that are invisible to human code reviewers. In a paper released this week, two researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK wrote that the method – which they dub “Trojan Source” – […]
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The latest stable version of the Firefox web browser, version 94, is now rolling out. There’s quite a bit going on with a couple of new features, some add-ons updates, and a whole lot of performance fixes and improvements.
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Security researchers are warning that a PHP-FPM local privilege escalation vulnerability impacting PHP could put millions of websites at risk. The vulnerability allows a low-privilege user to escalate his privileges to root using a bug in PHP-FPM.
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Security researchers are warning that a PHP-FPM local privilege escalation vulnerability impacting PHP could put millions of websites at risk. The vulnerability allows a low-privilege user to escalate his privileges to root using a bug in PHP-FPM.
The …
MITRE Corporation has released the tenth version of ATT&CK, its globally accessible (and free!) knowledge base of cyber adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.
Version 10 comes with new Data Source objects, new and change…
Hackers are always trying to hack into your Linux server. Here’s a useful and fun way to create an SSH honeypot to trap these hackers.
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Coming only three weeks after the previous kernel security update, the new one is currently only available for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) and Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa) systems running the Linux 5.11 kernel series, and it’s available for all su…
Over the past quarter of a century, the open-source movement has gone from strength to strength. But that success and the openness inherent in the community have led to a major challenge – security. The more software that is developed, the greater the likelihood there is for vulnerabilities. To make matters worse, the open-source world prides […]
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It is every developer’s desire to deploy secure web applications which are safe from threats. On most occasions, this is effort…
PHP Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Composer on Debian 11. All the steps should work on other Debian-based distributions as well.
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ThreatMapper is an open source platform for scanning runtime environments for software supply chain vulnerabilities and contextualizing threats to help organizations determine which to address and when.
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