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An anonymous reader writes: Lizard Squad, the hacking collaborative that went after the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and the North Korean internet last year, has now targeted Malaysia Airlines with an attack. Bloomberg links to images of the hacks (including the rather heartless 404 jab on its home page) and columnist Adam Minter wonders why Malaysia Airlines, which has had so much bad press in the past 12 months, was worthy of Lizard Squad's ire. In apparent answer, @LizardMafia (the org's reputed Twitter handle) messaged Mr. Minter this morning: "More to come soon. Side Note: We're still organizing the @MAS email dump, stay tuned for that."

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Qualys discovered a criticalbuffer overflow in the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() functions in glibc. According to the announcement by Qualys, they were able to create an in-house exploit that will execute arbitrary code via the Eximmail server. [1]

glibcbefore version 2.18 (released August ) is vulnerable. You can quickly check your glibc version by using ldd --version (but not all Unix systems that use glibc have ldd installed, and some software is statically compiled with glibc)

These glibcfunctions are used on most (all?) Unix systems to resolve hostnames . Any software that at some point resolved host names is potentially vulnerable, which includes pretty much all software that uses the network in some from (clients and servers). The problem has been fixed in some versions of glibc, but it was originally not recognized as a security vulnerability, and as a result not backported in older, still widely used and supported versions of glibc.

What should you do: Apply this update as soon as you see patched offered by your Linux/Unix distribution. Some Windows software (and of course OS X) uses glibcas well and may be vulnerable.

[1]http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
STI|Twitter|LinkedIn

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

Qualys discovered a criticalbuffer overflow in the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() functions in glibc. According to the announcement by Qualys, they were able to create an in-house exploit that will execute arbitrary code via the Eximmail server. [1]

glibcbefore version 2.18 (released August ) is vulnerable. You can quickly check your glibc version by using ldd --version (but not all Unix systems that use glibc have ldd installed, and some software is statically compiled with glibc)

These glibcfunctions are used on most (all?) Unix systems to resolve hostnames . Any software that at some point resolved host names is potentially vulnerable, which includes pretty much all software that uses the network in some from (clients and servers). The problem has been fixed in some versions of glibc, but it was originally not recognized as a security vulnerability, and as a result not backported in older, still widely used and supported versions of glibc.

What should you do: Apply this update as soon as you see patched offered by your Linux/Unix distribution. Some Windows software (and of course OS X) uses glibcas well and may be vulnerable.

[1]http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
STI|Twitter|LinkedIn

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

Natten till tisdagen låg New Yorks gator nästan öde sedan guvernören i delstaten, Andrew Cuomo, utlyst bilförbud. Varken bussar, tunnelbana eller taxi var i drift. Manhattan blev en isolerad ö mellan Hudsonfloden och East River.

En man i 25-30-årsåldern är anhållen misstänkt för mord sedan han skjutit ihjäl en man i samma ålder i Vaxholm. Mannen är militär, anställd vid marinen, och ringde själv polisens ledningscentral efter skotten och väntade in patrullen.

En man i 25-30-årsåldern är anhållen misstänkt för mord sedan han skjutit ihjäl en man i samma ålder i Vaxholm. Mannen är militär, anställd vid marinen, och ringde själv polisens ledningscentral efter skotten och väntade in patrullen.

astroengine writes: Astronomers have found a star system that bears a striking resemblance to our inner solar system. It's a sun-like star that plays host to a system of five small exoplanets — from the size of Mercury to the size of Venus. But there's something very alien about this compact 'solar system'; it formed when the universe was only 20 percent the age it is now, making it the most ancient star system playing host to terrestrial sized worlds discovered to date.

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