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French Hospital Halts Operations After Cyber-Attack

André-Mignot hospital shuts down computer systems

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  • December 5, 2022

Critical Ping Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Take Over FreeBSD Systems

The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping service. “

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Test Post – Prod Release 5 Dec

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Test Post 2 – 5 Dec Prod Release

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  • December 5, 2022

Number Nine! Chrome fixes another 2022 zero-day, Edge not patched yet

Ninth more unto the breach, dear friends, ninth more.

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‘Tis the Season for Holiday Scams

This time of year, the air not only gets chillier but a bit cheerier for everyone … including online scammers. Holiday scams are a quick way to make a buck, and cybercriminals employ several holiday-themed schemes to weasel money and personally identifiable information (PII) from gift givers.  Here are three common holiday scams to watch […]

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  • December 3, 2022

Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on November […]

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  • December 2, 2022

Apple pushes out iOS security update that’s more tight-lipped than ever

We grabbed the update, based on no information at all, just in case we came across a reason to advise you not to. So far, so good…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Legend of the Indiana Oil-Pit Squid

At a GMC plant. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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