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How  your voice assistant could do the bidding of a hacker – without you ever hearing a thing Regular WeLiveSecurity readers won’t be stunned to read that cyberattacks and their methods keep evolving as bad actors continue to enhance their repertoire. It’s also become a common refrain that as security vulnerabilities are found and patched (alas, sometimes after being exploited), malicious actors find new chinks in the software armor. Sometimes, however, it is not “just”…

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by Paul Ducklin Firefox’s latest major update is out, following Mozilla’s usual every-fourth-Tuesday release cycle. The list of security fixes this month (like full moons, there are sometimes two Firefox releases in a calendar month, but most months only have one) is splendidly short, and there aren’t any critical bugs or zero-days in the list. But there’s a fascinating bug that acts as a reminder that it’s hard to write responsive, user-friendly browser code that’s…

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by Paul Ducklin BACKDOORS, EXPLOITS, AND LITTLE BOBBY TABLES No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our RSS feed into your favourite podcatcher. READ THE TRANSCRIPT DOUG.  Backdoors, exploits, and the triumphant return of Little Bobby…

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Plus, 7 ways to tell that you downloaded a sketchy app and 7 tips for staying safe from mobile security threats in the future You’ve just downloaded a new mobile game, cryptocurrency wallet, or fitness app, but something isn’t right. Your phone’s screen is swamped by annoying ads, the app is not doing what you would expect it do, and, God forbid, you found an unauthorized transaction on your bank account. Chances are good that…

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by Paul Ducklin Last week, Progress Software Corporation, which sells software and services for user interface development, devops, file management and more, alerted customers of its MOVEit Transfer and related MOVEit Cloud products about a critical vulnerability dubbed CVE-2023-34362. As the name suggests, MOVEit Transfer is a system that makes it easy to store and share files throughout a team, a department, a company, or even a supply chain. In its own words, “MOVEit provides…

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by Paul Ducklin Google’s latest Chrome update is out, and this time the company hasn’t minced its words about one of the two security patches it includes: Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-3079 exists in the wild. There’s no two-degrees-of-separation verbiage, as we’ve often seen from Google before, to say that the company “is aware of reports” of an exploit. This time, it’s “we are aware of it all by ourselves”, which translates…

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