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This Week in Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, and Backdoored Tools

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/this-week-in-security-another-linux-exploit-ubuntu-knocked-offline-finals-interrupted-and-backdoored-tools/

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and …

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13 1d ago

This Week in Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, and Backdoored Tools https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/this-week-in-security-another-linux-exploit-ubuntu-knocked-offline-finals-interrupted-and-backdoored-tools/
#HackadayColumns #SecurityHacks #Cisa #Copyfail #Cpanel #Daemontools #Ddos #Dirtyfrag #Edge #Oracle #Shinyhunters #Tetra #ThisWeekinSecurity #Ubuntu

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and …

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Apr 24

This Week in Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, and Hacks that Could Have Been Worse

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/24/this-week-in-security-annoyed-researchers-dangling-dns-and-hacks-that-could-have-been-worse/

This Week In Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, And Hacks That Could Have Been Worse

The author of the BlueHammer exploit, which was released earlier this month and addressed in the last Patch Tuesday, continues to be annoyed with the responses from the Microsoft security research …

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13 Apr 24

This Week in Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, and Hacks that Could Have Been Worse https://hackaday.com/2026/04/24/this-week-in-security-annoyed-researchers-dangling-dns-and-hacks-that-could-have-been-worse/
#HackadayColumns #SecurityHacks #3com #Bitwarden #Bluehammer #Dns #Ios #Linux #Mythos #Nextcloud #Security #Signal #Srilanka #Supplychain #ThisWeekinSecurity

This Week In Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, And Hacks That Could Have Been Worse

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Apr 10

This Week in Security: Flatpak Fixes, Android Malware, and SCADA was IOT Before IOT was Cool

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/10/this-week-in-security-flatpak-fixes-android-malware-and-scada-was-iot-before-iot-was-cool/

This Week In Security: Flatpak Fixes, Android Malware, And SCADA Was IOT Before IOT Was Cool

Rowhammer attacks have been around since 2014, and mitigations are in place in most modern systems, but the team at gddr6.fail has found ways to apply the attack to current-generation GPUs. Rowhamm…

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13 Apr 4

This Week in Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems https://hackaday.com/2026/04/03/this-week-in-security-the-supply-chain-has-problems/
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This Week In Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was creat…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 20

This Week in Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, and a Botnet Shutdown

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/this-week-in-security-linux-flaws-python-ownage-and-a-botnet-shutdown/

13 Mar 20

This Week in Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, and a Botnet Shutdown https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/this-week-in-security-linux-flaws-python-ownage-and-a-botnet-shutdown/
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This Week In Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, And A Botnet Shutdown

The ides of security March are upon us — Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and Kubernete…

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13 Mar 13

This Week in Security: Plenty of Patches, Replacing Old Gear, and Phrack Calls for Papers https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/this-week-in-security-plenty-of-patches-replacing-old-gear-and-phrack-calls-for-papers/
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This Week In Security: Plenty Of Patches, Replacing Old Gear, And Phrack Calls For Papers

When Friday the Thirteenth and Patch Tuesday happen on the same week, we’re surely in for a good time. Anyone who maintains any sort of Microsoft ecosystem knows by now to brace for impact co…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 6

This Week In Security: Getting Back Up to Speed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/this-week-in-security-getting-back-up-to-speed/