New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions

The Hacker News Daily Updates 5 Tips to Make Your Cloud Security Roadmap Flexible, Agile and User-Friendly Download the White Paper Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jan 10, 2019 Over 202 Million Chinese Job Seekers' Details Exposed On the Internet Cybersecurity researcher has discovered online a massive database containing records of more than 202 million Chinese citizens that remained accessible to anyone on the Internet without authentication until last week. The unprotected 854.8 gigabytes of the database was stored in an instance of ... Read More New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted systems. The vulnerabilities, assigned as ... Read More Hackers Using Zero-Width Spaces to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cybercriminals and email scammers are already being using in the wild to bypass security features of Microsoft Office 365, including Safe Links, which are originally designed to protect users from malware and phishing attacks. ... Read More Google DNS Service (8.8.8.8) Now Supports DNS-over-TLS Security Almost every activity on the Internet starts with a DNS query, a key function of the Internet that works as an Internet's directory where your device looks up for the server IP addresses after you enter a human-readable web address (e.g., thehackernews.com). Since DNS queries are sent in clear ... Read More Turns Out Kaspersky Labs Helped FBI Catch Alleged NSA Leaker Remember "The Shadow Brokers" and the arrest of a former NSA contractor accused of stealing 50 Terabytes of top secret documents from the intelligence agency? It turns out that, Kaspersky Lab, which has been banned in US government computers over spying fears, was the one who tipped off the U.S. ... Read More 5 Tips to Make Your Cloud Security Roadmap Flexible, Agile and User-Friendly Download the White Paper Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India