Tag: FreeBSD
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FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software
The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the …
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FreeBSD 14.0 released, OpenSSH and OpenSSL updated
FreeBSD 14.0 is now available for the amd64, aarch64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, and riscv64 architectures. …
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Ping of death! FreeBSD fixes crashtastic bug in network tool
One of the first low-level network tools that any computer user learns about is the venerable utility. Named after the eponymous sound …
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Critical Ping bug potentially allows remote hack of FreeBSD systems
A critical stack-based buffer overflow bug, tracked as CVE-2022-23093, in the ping service can allow to take over FreeBSD systems. The …
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New cross-platform Chaos malware targets servers, routers and FreeBSD boxes
A newly discovered form of cross-platform malware has been found in the wild infecting Linux and Windows devices, including servers, …
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ESET found a variant of the Hive ransomware that encrypts Linux and FreeBSD
The Hive ransomware operators have developed a new variant of their malware that can encrypt Linux and FreeBSD. ESET researchers discovered …
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Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems
The Hive ransomware gang now also encrypts Linux and FreeBSD using new malware variants specifically developed to target these platforms. …
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New DNS vulnerabilities have the potential to impact millions of devices
Forescout Research Labs, in partnership with JSOF, disclosed a new set of DNS vulnerabilities, dubbed NAME:WRECK. These vulnerabilities …
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New fuzzing tool for USB drivers uncovers bugs in Linux, macOS, Windows
With a new fuzzing tool created specifically for testing the security of USB drivers, researchers have discovered more than two dozen …
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New fuzzing tool finds 26 USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD
Academics say they discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in the USB driver stack employed by operating systems such as Linux, macOs, Windows, …
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Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android, Linux distros, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, say university eggheads
A bug in the way Unix-flavored systems handle TCP connections could put VPN users at risk of having their encrypted traffic hijacked, it is …
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Severe Auth Bypass and Priv-Esc Vulnerabilities Disclosed in OpenBSD
OpenBSD, an open-source operating system built with security in mind, has been found vulnerable to four new high-severity security …
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