Sophisticated phishing attack targeting Turkey’s defense sector revealed TA397’s advanced tactics
Hacking Digital License Plates
Not everything needs to be digital and “smart.” License plates, for example:
Josep Rodriguez, a researcher at security firm IOActive, has revealed a technique to “jailbreak” digital license plates sold by Reviver, the leading vendor of those plates in the US with 65,000 plates already sold. By removing a sticker on the back of the plate and attaching a cable to its internal connectors, he’s able to rewrite a Reviver plate’s firmware in a matter of minutes. Then, with that custom firmware installed, the jailbroken license plate can receive commands via Bluetooth from a smartphone app to instantly change its display to show any characters or image.
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Because the vulnerability that allowed him to rewrite the plates’ firmware exists at the hardware level—in Reviver’s chips themselves—Rodriguez says there’s no way for Reviver to patch the issue with a mere software update. Instead, it would have to replace those chips in each display.
The whole point of a license plate is that it can’t be modified. Why in the world would anyone thing that a digital version is a good idea?
Texas Tech University Data Breach Impacts 1.4 Million
The breach has affected 650,000 individuals at TTUHSC’s Lubbock campus and 815,000 at its El Paso branch
dr_libs-0-0.27.20241217git660795b.el8
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-073915237b
Packages in this update:
dr_libs-0-0.27.20241217git660795b.el8
Update description:
Update to 0^20241216git660795b
dr_flac 0.12.43: Fix a possible buffer overflow during decoding. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
dr_mp3 0.6.40: Improve detection of ARM64EC
dr_wav 0.13.17: Fix a possible crash when reading from MS-ADPCM encoded files. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
Cybercriminals Exploit Google Calendar to Spread Malicious Links
Check Point research reveals cybercriminals are using Google Calendar and Drawings to send malicious links, bypassing traditional email security
dr_libs-0^20241216git660795b-1.el9
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-55f18fb87f
Packages in this update:
dr_libs-0^20241216git660795b-1.el9
Update description:
Update to 0^20241216git660795b
dr_flac 0.12.43: Fix a possible buffer overflow during decoding. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
dr_mp3 0.6.40: Improve detection of ARM64EC
dr_wav 0.13.17: Fix a possible crash when reading from MS-ADPCM encoded files. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
Add a SourceLicense field
USN-7167-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
– Ext4 file system;
– Network traffic control;
– VMware vSockets driver;
(CVE-2024-50264, CVE-2024-49967, CVE-2024-53057)
USN-7159-2: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
– ARM32 architecture;
– ARM64 architecture;
– S390 architecture;
– x86 architecture;
– Power management core;
– GPU drivers;
– InfiniBand drivers;
– Network drivers;
– S/390 drivers;
– TTY drivers;
– BTRFS file system;
– EROFS file system;
– F2FS file system;
– File systems infrastructure;
– BPF subsystem;
– Socket messages infrastructure;
– Bluetooth subsystem;
– Ethernet bridge;
– Networking core;
– IPv4 networking;
– SELinux security module;
(CVE-2022-48938, CVE-2024-42156, CVE-2024-36953, CVE-2024-38538,
CVE-2021-47501, CVE-2024-42068, CVE-2024-26947, CVE-2024-46724,
CVE-2024-36968, CVE-2023-52497, CVE-2024-35951, CVE-2023-52488,
CVE-2024-44940, CVE-2022-48733, CVE-2023-52498, CVE-2022-48943,
CVE-2024-35904, CVE-2024-42077, CVE-2024-36938, CVE-2023-52639,
CVE-2024-42240, CVE-2024-44942, CVE-2021-47076)
dr_libs-0^20241216git660795b-1.el10_0
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-704d471aec
Packages in this update:
dr_libs-0^20241216git660795b-1.el10_0
Update description:
Update to 0^20241216git660795b
dr_flac 0.12.43: Fix a possible buffer overflow during decoding. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
dr_mp3 0.6.40: Improve detection of ARM64EC
dr_wav 0.13.17: Fix a possible crash when reading from MS-ADPCM encoded files. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
Add a SourceLicense field
dr_libs-0^20241216git660795b-1.fc40
FEDORA-2024-4b0288e34f
Packages in this update:
dr_libs-0^20241216git660795b-1.fc40
Update description:
Update to 0^20241216git660795b
dr_flac 0.12.43: Fix a possible buffer overflow during decoding. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
dr_mp3 0.6.40: Improve detection of ARM64EC
dr_wav 0.13.17: Fix a possible crash when reading from MS-ADPCM encoded files. Improve detection of ARM64EC.
Add a SourceLicense field