Examining BootHole: Security Software Under Threat From Exploits
Recent BootHole vulnerabilities reconfirm that security functions require additional scrutiny to protect users and systems from dangerous exploits.
Recent BootHole vulnerabilities reconfirm that security functions require additional scrutiny to protect users and systems from dangerous exploits.
Security researcher Mazin Ahmed demonstrated multiple serious vulnerabilities in the popular Zoom app, two of which impact Linux users, at DEF CON 28.
The recent GRUB2 patches that were released to mitigate critical BootHole vulnerabilities also caused boot failure issues for some users. Luckily, fixes for these regressions have started appearing for some distros, including Debian and Ubuntu.
The NSA has issued mitigation guidance for a recently-discovered BootHole vulnerability impacting Linux and Windows systems.
Patches issued to fix a recent BootHole vulnerability have rendered RedHat and CentOS systems unbootable.
A dangerous vulnerability has been discovered in the default Linux KDE extraction utility called ARK that allows malicious actors to overwrite files or execute code on victims' computers by tricking them into downloading an archive and extracting it.
A dangerous new vulnerability has been discovered in Secure Boot that affects a huge number of Linux and Windows systems that use the UEFI specification during boot.
CERT-In is urging Google Chrome users to upgrade immediately to the new version of the Chrome browser to protect sensitive information on their machines and prevent contact spoofing and denial of service (DoS) attacks exploiting Chrome vulnerabilities.
Purdue University security researchers recently discovered a vulnerability affecting IoT devices running Bluetooth which could lead to spoofing attacks. The vulnerability has a broad impact on mainstream platforms that support BLE communications, including Linux, Android and iOS.
The project behind the Rust programming language has revoked all API keys from its package web app. These API keys were not randomly generated and were being stored in plain text.
A new report reveals that common home routers from Netgear, Linksys, D-Link and other vendors contain serious security vulnerabilities that even updates don’t fix. While Linux can be a very secure OS in theory, researchers have found that many of these vulnerable routers are powered by very old versions of Linux that lack support and are riddled with security issues as a result.
Did you know that your router could be the biggest security hole in your network?
Have you heard that F5 has patched a severe security vulnerability in its BIG-IP product? The bug can be exploited by attackers over the Internet to gain access to the TMUI component, which runs on top of a Tomcat server on BIG-IP's Linux-based operating system.
Nvidia has released a set of security updates to remove six vulnerabilities in the Nvidia GPU Display Driver impacting both Linux and Windows machines.
Have you heard that VideoLAN has released a new version of VLC Media Player to resolve a critical security vulnerability that could eventually allow for remote code execution?
For the past two years, Intel CPUs have been under siege by an unending series of attacks that make it possible for cybercriminals to pluck passwords, encryption keys, and other secrets out of silicon-resident memory. New security research reveals that Intel's speculative execution flaws go deeper and are even harder to fix than we initially thought.
After much debate, Linus Torvalds has rejected a controversial patch to address potential leaks of secrets from a CPU's cores.
Have you heard about the cryptographic data leakage in Firefox's latest security update? It has now been fixed. Learn how to check if you have the update - and be sure to install it immediately if you do not.
A new fuzzing tool, USBFuzz, has identified 18 USB bugs impacting Linux. Eleven have already been patched.
Huawei has denied having any official involvement in an insecure patch submitted to the Linux kernel project over the weekend, which introduced a "trivially exploitable" vulnerability. According to the tech giant, an employee submitted code as part of a personal project, not on behalf of the company.