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UK Reconsidering Biometrics
Quick Hits  |  8/12/2014  | 
Parliament is looking for answers about biometrics' privacy, security, future uses, and whether or not legislation is ready for what comes next.
6 Biometric Factors That Are Working Today
Slideshows  |  8/12/2014  | 
From fingerprints to wearable ECG monitors, there are real options in the market that may relegate the despised password to the dustbin of history.
Biggest Cache of Stolen Creds Ever Includes 1.2 Billion Unique Logins
Quick Hits  |  8/5/2014  | 
A Russian crime ring has swiped more than a billion unique username-password combinations, plus a half-million email addresses.
'Backoff' Malware: Time To Step Up Remote Access Security
Commentary  |  8/1/2014  | 
DHS issues advisory about remote desktop access tools associated with recent point-of-sale breaches.


Devastating Cyberattack on Email Provider Destroys 18 Years of Data
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writer,  2/12/2019
Up to 100,000 Reported Affected in Landmark White Data Breach
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  2/12/2019
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CVE-2019-8358
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-16
In Hiawatha before 10.8.4, a remote attacker is able to do directory traversal if AllowDotFiles is enabled.
CVE-2019-8354
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-15
An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. lsx_make_lpf in effect_i_dsp.c has an integer overflow on the result of multiplication fed into malloc. When the buffer is allocated, it is smaller than expected, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
CVE-2019-8355
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-15
An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. In xmalloc.h, there is an integer overflow on the result of multiplication fed into the lsx_valloc macro that wraps malloc. When the buffer is allocated, it is smaller than expected, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in channels_start in remix.c.
CVE-2019-8356
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-15
An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. One of the arguments to bitrv2 in fft4g.c is not guarded, such that it can lead to write access outside of the statically declared array, aka a stack-based buffer overflow.
CVE-2019-8357
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-15
An issue was discovered in SoX 14.4.2. lsx_make_lpf in effect_i_dsp.c allows a NULL pointer dereference.