Python 3.3 standard library 'ipaddress' suffers from a critical IP address vulnerability (CVE-2021-29921) identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year. [...]
Codecov has now started notifying the maintainers of software repositories affected by the recent supply-chain attack. These notifications, delivered via both email and the Codecov application interface, state that the company believes the affected repositories were downloaded by threat actors. [...]
GitHub has announced rolling out a mysterious HTTP header on all GitHub Pages sites to block Google FLoC tracking. [...]
GitHub has announced rolling out a mysterious HTTP header on all GitHub Pages sites to block Google FLoC tracking. [...]
Open-source software tools and Vault maker HashiCorp has disclosed a security incident that occurred due to the recent Codecov attack. HashiCorp, a Codecov customer, has stated that the recent Codecov supply-chain attack aimed at collecting developer credentials led to the exposure of HashiCorp's GPG signing key. [...]
The "external sender" warnings shown to email recipients by clients like Microsoft Outlook can be hidden by the sender, as demonstrated by a researcher. Turns out, all it takes for attackers to alter the "external sender" warning, or remove it altogether from emails is just a few lines of …
Linux kernel project maintainers have imposed a ban on the University of Minnesota (UMN) from contributing to the open-source Linux project after a group of UMN researchers were caught submitting a series of malicious code commits, or patches that deliberately introduced security vulnerabilities in the official Linux project. [...]
WhatsApp malware dubbed WhatsApp Pink has now been updated with advanced capabilities that let this counterfeit Android app automatically respond to your Signal, Telegram, Viber, and Skype messages. WhatsApp Pink refers to a counterfeit app that appeared this week, primarily targeting WhatsApp users in the Indian subcontinent. [...]
More details have emerged on the recent Codecov system breach which is being likened to the SolarWinds hack. In new reporting, investigators have stated that hundreds of customer networks have been breached in the incident, expanding the scope of this system breach beyond just Codecov's systems. [...]
A large BGP routing leak that occurred last night disrupted the connectivity for thousands of major networks and websites around the world. Although the BGP routing leak occurred in Vodafone's autonomous network (AS55410) based in India, it has impacted U.S. companies, including Google, according to sources. [...]
This month, Amazon has announced plans to phase out support for the Mozilla Firefox web browser app on its Fire TV product line. The company has decided to no longer support the Mozilla Firefox browser in a bid to promote its Amazon Silk web browser app to customers, effective …
Makers of Vivaldi and Brave web browsers have rejected Google's new privacy-preserving proposal called FLoC, which is meant to replace third-party tracking cookies across websites on browsers, including Chrome. [...]
A new malicious package been spotted this week on the npm registry, which targets NodeJS developers using Linux and Apple macOS operating systems for its recon activities. The malicious package is called "web-browserify." It imitates the popular Browserify npm component, downloaded over 160 million times over its lifetime. [...]
Mozilla volunteers have recently been flooded with requests by online merchants and marketers for their domains to be added to what's called a Public Suffix List (PSL) due to recent privacy changes brought forth by Apple's iOS 14.5. [...]
Facebook has now released a public statement clarifying the cause of and addressing some of the concerns related to the recent data leak. As reported last week, information of about 533 million Facebook profiles surfaced on a hacker forum. [...]
Rust developers have repeatedly raised concerned about a privacy issue over the last few years. Rust has rapidly gained momentum among developers, for its focus on performance, safety, safe concurrency, and for having a similar syntax to C++. However, developers have been bothered by their Rust production binaries leaking …
GitHub Actions has been abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency using GitHub's servers, automatically.The particular attack adds malicious GitHub Actions code to repositories forked from legitimate ones, and further creates a Pull Request for the original repository maintainers to merge the code back, to alter the original code …
GitHub Actions has been abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency using GitHub's servers, automatically.The particular attack adds malicious GitHub Actions code to repositories forked from legitimate ones, and further creates a Pull Request for the original repository maintainers to merge the code back, to alter the original code …
The popular Twitch AdBlock extension has been removed from both Chrome Web Store and Firefox Addons. Twitch AdBlock was the choice of extension among Twitch users for restricting ads when using Twitch. The extension's author stated before its removal, the ad blocker had over 150,000 users and 6 …
GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely inadvertently captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities. The private data was leaked on GitHub repositories last year that are now part of a collection of open-source contributions bound to last a 1,000 years. [...]
GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely inadvertently captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities. The private data was leaked on GitHub repositories last year that are now part of a collection of open-source contributions bound to last a 1,000 years. [...]
Researchers have spotted counterfeit versions of the jQuery Migrate plugin injected on dozens of websites which contains obfuscated code to load malware. These files are named jquery-migrate.js & jquery-migrate.min.js and present at the exact locations where JavaScript files are normally present on WordPress sites but are malicious …
Google Chrome developers have announced plans to roll out DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support to Chrome web browser for Linux. DoH has been supported on Google Chrome for other platforms, including Android, since at least 2020. But, there's a catch. [...]
In the latest software supply chain attack, the official PHP Git repository was hacked and tampered with. Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository maintained by the PHP team on their git.php.net server. The threat actors had signed off on these commits as …
Popular npm component netmask has a critical networking vulnerability, CVE-2021-28918. netmask is frequently used by hundreds of thousands of applications to parse IPv4 addresses and CIDR blocks or compare them. The component gets over 3 million weekly downloads, and as of today, has scored over 238 million total downloads …