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[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days.

Feedbacksystem is a personalized feedback system for students using artificial intelligence. Passwords of users using LDAP login are stored in clear text in the database. The LDAP users password is passed unencrypted in the LoginController.scala and stored in the database when logging in for the first time. Users using only local login or the cas login are not affected. This issue has been patched in version 1.19.2.

QR codes have always served as a way for bad actors to spread malware or even your friendly neighborhood prankster to share Rick Astley’s most famous music video.

Government entities, military organizations, and civilian users in Ukraine and Poland have been targeted as part of a series of campaigns designed to steal sensitive data and gain persistent remote access to the infected systems. The intrusion set, which stretches from April 2022 to July 2023, leverages phishing lures and decoy documents to deploy a downloader malware called PicassoLoader, which

Ubuntu Security Notice 6223-1 - It was discovered that the TUN/TAP driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize socket data. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the Real-Time Scheduling Class implementation in the Linux kernel contained a type confusion vulnerability in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6222-1 - Jiasheng Jiang discovered that the HSA Linux kernel driver for AMD Radeon GPU devices did not properly validate memory allocation in certain situations, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Zheng Wang discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a double-free. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6221-1 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the overlay file system implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the virtual terminal device implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition in its ioctl handling that led to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ​CVSS v3 8.2 ​ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity ​Vendor: Siemens ​Equipment: SIMATIC MV500 series devices ​Vulnerabilities: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor, Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime, Injection, Inadequate Encryption Strength, Double Free, Incomplete Cleanup, Observable Discrepancy, Improper Locking, Use After Free, Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION ​Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to read memory contents, disclose information, or cause a denial-of-service condition. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS ​The following products from Siemens are affected: ​SIMATIC MV540 H (6GF3540-0GE10): All versions prior to v3.3.4 ​SIMATIC MV540 S (6GF3540-0CD10): All versions prior to v 3.3.4 ​SIMATIC MV550 H (6GF3550-0GE10): All versions prior to v 3.3.4 ​SIMATIC MV550 S (6GF3550-0CD10): All versions prior to v 3.3.4 ​SIMATIC MV560 U (6GF3560-0LE10): ...

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