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Ubuntu Security Notice 6918-1 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6917-1 - Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. Gui-Dong Han discovered that the software RAID driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to an integer overflow vulnerability. A privileged attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Jess Dodson about SIEM selection, management, and proper data collection.

An attack flow that combines API flaws within "log in with" implementations and Web injection bugs could affect millions of websites.

This year's conference will be a treasure trove of insights for cybersecurity professionals.

An unknown threat actor has been linked to a massive scam campaign that exploited an email routing misconfiguration in email security vendor Proofpoint's defenses to send millions of messages spoofing various legitimate companies. "These emails echoed from official Proofpoint email relays with authenticated SPF and DKIM signatures, thus bypassing major security protections — all to deceive

A list of topics we covered in the week of July 22 to July 28 of 2024

The remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT has been observed being delivered by an "evasive dropper" called Gh0stGambit as part of a drive-by download scheme targeting Chinese-speaking Windows users. These infections stem from a fake website ("chrome-web[.]com") serving malicious installer packages masquerading as Google's Chrome browser, indicating that users searching for the software on the

Plus: More Pegasus spyware controversy, a major BIOS controversy, and more of the week’s top security news.

Researchers track the healthcare sector as experiencing the biggest financial losses, with banking and transportation following close behind.