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New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions [source: thehackernews]

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system (display server) that offers a graphical environment to a wider range of hardware and OS platforms. It serves as an intermediary between client and user applications...

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Amazon IoT operating system FreeRTOS has serious vulnerabilities [source: 360totalsecurity]

Recently, the researchers found that the popular Internet of Things (IoT) real-time operating system FreeRTOS has serious vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can allow hackers to break connected devices in smart homes or critical infrastructure systems, reveal information from device memory, and take over devices. Although patches have been released, the researchers alerted that updates from small vendors still take time. The researcher recently analyzed some of...

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The latest variant of Satan ransomware is spreading in the wild [360totalsecurity]

Recently, 360 Security Center captured the latest variant of Satan ransomware and monitored that it has begun to spread in the wild. The new version of Satan has been updated to v4.2. After the attack is launched successfully, the file will be encrypted and the file suffix will be “sicck”. The amount of the extortion is one bitcoin. This is the activity of Satan ransomware...

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685 million users may be affected by the Branch.io service XSS vulnerability [360totalsecurity]

Hundreds of million users may have been exposed to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks due to vulnerabilities in the Branch.io services used by Tinder, Shopify, Yelp and many others. When the researchers analyzed Tinder and other applications, they found a Tinder domain, go.tinder.com, which had multiple XSS vulnerabilities. The researchers said that these vulnerabilities could be used to access Tinder users’ profiles. However, in most cases,...

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Fake application disguised itself as Google Photos in Microsoft Store [360totalsecurity]

In May of this year, an app called “Album by Google Photos” was launched in the Microsoft App Store. Its developer, calling itself “Google LLC” (Google LLC). However, in fact, this is completely fake. Attentive people will know that the official Google app that was released before, its developer column is displayed as “Google Inc.” In view of its release for several months, Google has...

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