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One of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has renewed calls asking for Apple and Google to boot the popular video-sharing platform TikTok from their app stores citing "its pattern of surreptitious data practices." "It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing's apparently

Plus: Google issues fixes for Android bugs, and Cisco, Citrix, SAP, WordPress, and more issue major patches for enterprise systems.

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy -- a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals -- suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy's founder is one of the men being sued by Google.

A German ad-tech trial features what Vodafone calls “digital tokens.” Should you be worried?

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2020-29368: kernel: the copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check * CVE-2022-1012: kernel: Small table perturb size in the TCP source port generation algorithm can lead to information leak * CVE-2022-1729: kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to priv...

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-27666: kernel: buffer overflow in IPsec ESP transformation code

An update for the nodejs:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-3918: nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability * CVE-2021-22959: llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers * CVE-2021-22960: llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests * CVE-2021-37701: nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite * CVE-2021-37712: nodejs-tar: Insufficient symlink protection due to directory cache poisoning using symbolic links allowing arbitrary file creation and overwrite * CVE-2021-44531: nodejs: Improper...

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-1012: kernel: Small table perturb size in the TCP source port generation algorithm can lead to information leak * CVE-2022-1966: kernel: a use-after-free write in the netfilter subsystem can lead to privilege escalation to root * CVE-2022-27666: kernel: buffer overflow in IPsec ESP transformation code

Researchers describe discovery of ‘mega’ zero-day

The Login With OTP Over SMS, Email, WhatsApp and Google Authenticator WordPress plugin before 1.0.8 does not escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed