Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. CISA published five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. ” reads CISA’s advisory. ” reads the MAR.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The “ rlottie ” folder caught their attention, it was the folder used for the Samsung native library for playing Lottie animations, originally created by Airbnb. ” reads the analysis published by Shielder experts. This library was used by Telegram developers instead of the Airbnb’s one. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Shostack

JUNE 22, 2020

I’m excited to see that they’re Re-introducing the Cyentia Research Library , with cool (new?) The Cyentia Library lets us see what people are doing in terms of research and data. ’ My longstanding interest in how attackers get access is underserved. features like an RSS feed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The threat actors behind the DuneQuixote campaign took steps to prevent collection and analysis the implants through the implementation of practical and well-designed evasion methods. The malware is developed in C/C++ without utilizing the Standard Template Library (STL), and certain segments are coded in pure Assembler.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. The vulnerability ties on how Instagram uses third-party libraries for image processing, in particular, the open-source JPEG decoder Mozjpeg. A malicious code could allow the hackers to access a device’s phone contacts, camera, GPS data, and files stored into the device.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

The developer Tute Costa found a backdoor in the Ruby library during regular security audits before deploying his code in the production environment. The developer Tute Costa found a backdoor in the Ruby library during regular security audits. The attacker created a new version of the library (version 0.0.7 version 0.0.7

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CILIP

JUNE 3, 2021

Suffolk Libraries upgrades to become a Premium Employer Partner with CILIP. Suffolk Libraries has become the latest major employer to join the Premium tier of CILIP?s s library service since 2012 during which time all 44 libraries have stayed open with opening hours increasing at several sites. s Employer Partner scheme.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19 and fixed in just one day. Reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19” reads the advisory published by the IT giant. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The vulnerability was tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and received a CVSS score of 10.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

New book provides an accessible and practical introduction to data science. Data science has a wide range of applications within the information profession, from working alongside researchers in the discovery of new knowledge, to the application of business analytics for the smoother running of a library or library services.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

. “When the OpenEdge Authentication Gateway (OEAG) is configured with an OpenEdge Domain that uses the OS local authentication provider to grant user-id and password logins on operating platforms supported by active releases of OpenEdge, a vulnerability in the authentication routines may lead to unauthorized access on attempted logins.”

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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CILIP

JANUARY 27, 2020

Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately DURING the 2019 General Election Boris Johnson said he loved libraries and wanted to invest in opening more of them, but added: ?We His special adviser, Dominic Cummings, has no such conditions attached to his support for libraries.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library that provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24. The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity integer overflow in Skia.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks. The attackers forged authentication tokens to access user email using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library that provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24. ownCloud is an open-source software platform designed for file synchronization and sharing.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

Horizon3 published an analysis and proof of concept to exploit Fortinet’s FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS). or above March 25, 2024 Hackers Pollute Python Package Index Open-Source Libraries Type of vulnerability (or attack): Malicious library code. The fix: Update affected versions ASAP: FortiClient EMS 7.2:

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Google has released the source code of a tool, dubbed PathAuditor, designed to help developers identify vulnerabilities related to file access. Google decided to release the source code of a tool dubbed PathAuditor designed to help developers identify vulnerabilities related to file access. ” reads the post published by Google.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. In 2023, the researchers observed a surge in zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party components and libraries that can impact all products that use them. ” concludes the report.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Open-source AI projects and libraries, freely available on platforms like GitHub, fuel digital innovation in industries like healthcare, finance and education. Leveraging existing libraries and tools, small teams of developers can build valuable applications for diverse platforms like Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2023-03-30 [$8000][ 1429201 ] High CVE-2023-2134: Out of bounds memory access in Service Worker API.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

China-linked APT group VANGUARD PANDA, aka Volt Typhoon, was spotted observing a novel tradecraft to gain initial access to target networks. CrowdStrike researchers observed the China-linked APT group VANGUARD PANDA, aka Volt Typhoon , using a novel tradecraft to gain initial access to target networks. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

OrBit allows operators to achieve remote access capabilities over SSH, harvests credentials, and logs TTY commands. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. “The shared object hooks functions from 3 libraries: libc, libcap and Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM). ” continues the experts.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Shift happens: the future office/library in a connected world. an in-depth analysis of what the ?future and, yes, the library. So what role can libraries play in the new normal ? as centres for information, accessible to all, safe, often centrally located, excellent connectivity, and staffed by informed and helpful hosts?

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Archive-It

MAY 8, 2023

by the Community Programs team This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. Participants further explored data generated with ARCH in Palladio , Voyant , and RAWGraphs.

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Archive-It

MAY 8, 2023

by the Community Programs team This Spring, the Internet Archive hosted two in-person workshops aimed at helping to advance library support for web archive research: Digital Scholarship & the Web and Art Resources on the Web. Participants further explored data generated with ARCH in Palladio , Voyant , and RAWGraphs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score – 9.8) – PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability. PaperCut MF/NG contains an improper access control vulnerability within the SetupCompleted class that allows authentication bypass and code execution in the context of system.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Library branches remain open, Wi-Fi is still available and materials can still be borrowed. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. An unprivileged user can exploit the flaw to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and escalate privileges to the root.

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CILIP

JUNE 26, 2019

Success of AI in academic libraries depends on good underlying data. nder, scientific information specialist: Success of AI in academic libraries depends on good underlying data. Why do we hear so little in this respect from libraries on this side of the Atlantic? In what way have the working methods in libraries changed?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Threat actors are targeting e-stores with remote access malware, dubbed NginRAT, that hides on Nginx servers bypassing security solutions. Researchers from security firm Sansec recently discovered a new Linux remote access trojan (RAT), tracked as CronRAT , that hides in the Linux task scheduling system (cron) on February 31st.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Immediately after the disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw in Log4j library threat actors started including the exploit code in Linux botnets. Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Open research needs library support. Open research needs library support. The document, which is available in a variety of formats, includes the opportunity for library and information professionals to contribute directly through GitHub. Research funders and libraries hold most of the purse strings,?

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