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**What is the version information for this release?** Microsoft Edge Version Date Released Based on Chromium Version 101.0.1210.47 5/13/2022 101.0.4951.64

**What is the version information for this release?** Microsoft Edge Version Date Released Based on Chromium Version 101.0.1210.47 5/13/2022 101.0.4951.64

The Microsoft Security Response Center is part of the defender community and on the front line of security response for our customers and the company. Our mission is to protect customers and Microsoft from current and emerging threats related to security and privacy. We monitor threats and provide updated tools and guidance to help organizations defend against, identify, and remediate attacks.

By Waqas A VPN these days is a must as we know it. The recent growth of VPN use has… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A Guide to Using VPNs on Your Smartphone

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  Mandatory multi-factor authentication is all the rage nowadays. GitHub just announced that all contributors would have to enroll in MFA by 2023 to log into their accounts. And Google announced as part of... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

An out of bounds read vulnerability exists in the malware scan functionality of ESTsoft Alyac 2.5.7.7. A specially-crafted PE file can trigger this vulnerability to cause denial of service and termination of malware scan. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5417-1 - Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that the MMC/SD subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle read errors from SD cards in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5418-1 - Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. Demi Marie Obenour and Simon Gaiser discovered that several Xen para- virtualization device frontends did not properly restrict the access rights of device backends. An attacker could possibly use a malicious Xen backend to gain access to memory pages of a guest VM or cause a denial of service in the guest.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5415-1 - Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.

Five years since WannaCry exploded onto the scene, ransomware still tops global threat lists ANALYSIS Five years ago today (May 12), a ransomware attack blamed on a North Korean hacking group hit comp