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With an OS design based on a verified microkernel, researchers contend almost all Linux OS flaws could be mitigated to less than critical severity.
A pen-tester has found five vulnerabilities in Dell EMC RecoverPoint devices, including a critical RCE that could allow total system compromise.
Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the week’s information security news.
The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute a malware or other payloads on a client machine by sending malicious messages from the DHCP server.
Samba released fixes for its networking software to address two critical vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to change admin password or launch DoS attacks.
Widespread reports of reboot issues on some Intel systems force the chip giant to pump the brakes on rolling out patches for side-channel vulnerabilities.
Intel, Amazon, ARM, Microsoft and others have shared patch updates to keep customers informed on their mitigation efforts to protect against the far reaching Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities impacting computers, servers and mobile devices worldwide. 
A domain name system server implementation is at risk of remote code execution, information exposure and denial-of-service attacks after a seven vulnerability were disclosed by Google and patched by the maintainers of Dnsmasq.
Bluetooth attack vector, dubbed ‘BlueBorne’, leaves billions of smart Bluetooth devices open to attack including Android and Apple phones and millions more Linux-based smart devices.
Microsoft patched 25 critical vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution bug in Windows Search.