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• Severe Auth Bypass and Priv-Esc Vulnerabilities Disclosed in OpenBSD December 5, 2019
  OpenBSD, an open-source operating system built with security in mind, has been found vulnerable to four new high-severity security vulnerabilities, one of which is an old-school type authentication bypass vulnerability in BSD Auth framework. Here's a brief explanation of all four security vulnerabilities in OpenBSD—a free and open-source BSD-based Unix-like operating system—along with their assigned […]
• Major U.S. voting districts at risk of email spoofing December 5, 2019
  Only 5% of the largest voting counties in the U.S. are protected against email impersonation and phishing attacks, seen as a key attack method by hackers who officials say want to disrupt the upcoming presidential election. Researchers at Valimail, which has a commercial stake in the email security space, looked at the largest three electoral […]
• Aviatrix VPN vulnerability left user endpoints wide open December 5, 2019
  Aviatrix, a supplier of open source enterprise virtual private networks (VPNs) to customers including BT, Nasa and Shell, has patched a serious vulnerability in its client that could have given an attacker escalation privileges on a machine to which they already had access. Its disclosure comes hot on the heels of government warnings about the […]
• Hackers primed to exploit 5G to Wi-Fi handover flaws December 5, 2019
  With 5G networks rapidly coming on-stream, wireless carriers are increasingly handing off calls and data to Wi-Fi networks to save bandwidth, and flaws in this process will allow hackers to compromise security, say researchers at the WatchGuard Technologies Threat Lab. The researchers believe attackers will find new vulnerabilities to access voice and data on 5G […]
• Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million December 5, 2019
  Security researchers at Check Point say the company has uncovered evidence that Chinese hackers managed to hijack $1 million in seed money during a wire transfer between a Chinese venture capital firm and an Israeli startup—without either side realizing anything was wrong. “The first domain was essentially the same as the Israeli startup domain, but […]
• China Fires ‘Great Cannon’ Cyber-Weapon At The Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement December 5, 2019
  The LIHKG online forum used by pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong has come under fire from the ... [+] Great Cannon of China cyber-weapon. While not as well-known as the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), a DDoS tool put to very effective use by the Anonymous hacking group when attacking websites supporting the Church of […]