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Glibc, the GNU C library at the core of last year’s GHOST vulnerability, is vulnerable to another critical flaw affecting nearly all Linux machines, as well as API web services and major web frameworks where the code runs. The vulnerability, discovered independently by researchers at Google and Red Hat, has been patched. The flaw, CVE-2015-7547,...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including the Linux zero day–how it was patched in Android, Twitter users sent nation state messages that are still looking for answers, and bot fraud. Download: news_wrap_01-08-16.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
A patch for a critical Linux kernel flaw, present in the code since 2012, is expected to be pushed out today. The vulnerability affects versions 3.8 and higher, said researchers at startup Perception Point who discovered the vulnerability. The flaw also extends to two-thirds of Android devices, the company added. “It’s pretty bad because a...
16 October 2015 - 12:58, by , in News, No comments
Get ready! We’re about to run the gauntlet of Mactivists, and we’d love you to join us. The story is a simple one: Apple released updates for iMovie and iWork this week (get ready for about 1GB of download in total), bumping up the middle digit of the products’ version numbers. Keynote on OS X,...