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Met Police newsdesk hacked

London’s Metropolitan Police suffered a “hack” which saw their Twitter feed and press bureau post a series of bizarre messages.

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Linux Kernel Network File System NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability [CVE-2018-16871]

CVE number – CVE-2018-16871 A vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of

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GNU Binutils Invalid e_shoff Header Denial of Service Vulnerability [CVE-2019-1010204]

CVE number – CVE-2019-1010204 A vulnerability in GNU Binutils could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of

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Linux Kernel PowerPC mmu_context_book3s64.c Virtual Memory Access Vulnerability [CVE-2019-12817]

CVE Number – CVE-2019-12817 A vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on

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Zeromq libzmq Stack Buffer Overflow Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability [CVE-2019-13132]

CVE number – CVE-2019-13132 A vulnerability in ZeroMQ libzmq could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on

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City Power in Johannesburg hit by ransomware attack

City Power in Johannesburg spokesperson Isaac Mangena said the virus had attacked its database and other software, impacting on most

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Airwaves opened up to support wireless revolution

Farmers, factories and business parks are some of the groups that could benefit from a revolution in wireless technology, following

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Wireshark ASN.1 BER Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability [CVE-2019-13619]

CVE number – CVE-2019-13619 A vulnerability in the Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) Basic Encoding Rules (BER) dissector component of

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python-engineio Origin Header Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking Vulnerability [CVE-2019-13611]

CVE number – CVE-2019-13611 A vulnerability in python-engineio could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site websocket hijacking

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VideoLAN VLC lavc_CopyPicture Heap-Based Buffer Over-Read Vulnerability [CVE-2019-13962]

CVE Number – CVE-2019-13962 A vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC media player could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary

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