Heartless scammers prey on hundreds of lost pet owners, demanding ransoms or else…

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Hundreds of pet owners across the UK have reported that they have received blackmail threats from scammers who claim to have found their lost pooches and missing moggies.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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USN-6583-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

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Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes
new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

MySQL has been updated to 5.7.44 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new
features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Please see the following for more information:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-44.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2023.html

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USN-6582-1: WebKitGTK vulnerability

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Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript
engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote
attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security,
including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and
arbitrary code execution.

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