Have you heard that a serious vulnerability has been discovered in the latest release of the VLC media player and no patch is available?  Non-profit VideoLAN's VLC player is popular softwa ...

Have you heard that hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and de ...

Are you a Mozilla Firefox user? Did you know that Firefox browser could soon receive a Tor mode add-on that would significantly enhance privacy by connecting to the Tor network?

Like all thinks, there are both benefits and risks associated with AI, quantum computing and 5G. Law enforcement needs to be innovative and act now in order to keep face with near future criminal t ...

Firewalls are a vital part of network security, so it’s important for a sysadmin to be familiar with how they work. If you understand firewalls, you can keep your ...

Fresh off dealing with chaos caused by last month's ransomware attack, the city of Baltimore has a new problem to deal with -- the $18 million in damages that came with ...

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A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he's selling on ...

Have you heard that a serious vulnerability has been discovered in the latest release of the VLC media player and no patch is available?  Non-profit VideoLAN's VLC player is ...

Have you heard that a serious vulnerability has been discovered in the latest release of the VLC media player and no patch is available?  Non-profit VideoLAN's VLC player is ...

* Release of 18.08.8 * Closes security issue (CVE-2019-12838) * Configure for UCX support on supported arches

User "Arminius" discovered a vulnerability in Vim, an enhanced version of the standard UNIX editor Vi (Vi IMproved), which also affected the Neovim fork, an extensible editor focused on modern code an ...

Jann Horn discovered that the ptrace subsystem in the Linux kernel mishandles the management of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, allowing a local user to obtain ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.