Security: Updates, Russia, RHEL, Thunderbird and More
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Security updates for Wednesday
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Kaspersky to move some core infrastructure out of Russia to fight for trust
“By the end of 2019, Kaspersky Lab will have established a data center in Zurich and in this facility will store and process all information for users in Europe, North America, Singapore, Australia, Japan and South Korea, with more countries to follow,” it writes in a press release.
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RedHat admins, patch now – don’t let your servers get pwned!
RedHat Linux, together with its stablemates Fedora and CentOS, just patched a serious security bug.
This bug doesn’t need a fancy nickname, because it ended up (entirely by chance, of course) with a very memorable bug number: CVE-2018-1111.
Bug OneOneOneOne affects DHCP, short for dynamic host configuration protocol, a network-based system that helps you automate the process of getting computers to play nicely together online.
DHCP solves the problem of how to use the network itself to get a network number (in popular parlance, an IP address) in order to start using the network.
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What OpenShift Online and Dedicated Customers Should Know About the Recent DHCP Vulnerability
Red Hat recently announced information about CVE-2018-1111, a vulnerability in the integration between Network Manager and DHCP present in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
OpenShift Online and Dedicated run on top of RHEL and as such have the vulnerable package installed. However, because each cluster is contained within individual private networks all of the common ways to exploit this flaw are effectively removed.
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Thunderbird and the Recent #EFAIL Vulnerability, Fedora Urges Users to Update DHCP Packages, Kernel Updates and More
The Fedora team is pushing its users to update their DHCP packages addressing a recently discovered flaw (CVE-2018-1111). Fixes are available for versions 26, 27, 28 and Rawhide.
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Study Finds Students With Better Grades Are Equally Poor At Keeping Strong Passwords [Ed: Well, the "attack surface" as security bigwigs like to call it goes well beyond just passwords; many people still use platforms with back doors, keyloggers etc.]
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