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Microsoft Warns of ‘Nimbuspwn’ Security Flaws Haunting Linux

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Apr

2022

The vulnerabilities, collectively known as Nimbuspwn, provide a roadmap for attackers to elevate privileges to root on many Linux desktop endpoints, Redmond said in a public advisory. Microsoft said its researchers created an experimental exploit capable of delivering a root backdoor with permanent root access. “The vulnerabilities can be chained together to gain root privileges […]

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It’s legal to scrape public data—US appeals court

21

Apr

2022

Web scraping—the automated extraction of data from websites—has been around for a long time. Simultaneously cursed and praised, with nobody being able to quite land the decisive blow about whether it should be allowed, one way or another. This may have changed, thanks to a recent US appeals court ruling. A tangled web of scraped […]

Category Privacy protection Security Written by Blog 0 Comments

Why you should patch the latest critical Windows RPC vulnerability right now

15

Apr

2022

Among the over 100 vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft this week during its monthly patch cycle is one that has the security community very worried. It’s a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability located in the Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) runtime. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-26809, can be exploited over the network with no user […]

Category Threats & Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

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