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The Debian Project has patched a security flaw in its software manager Apt that can be exploited by network snoops to execute commands as root on victims’ boxes as they update or install packages.
The Linux distro’s curators have pushed out an fix to address CVE-2019-3462, a vulnerability uncovered and reported by researcher Max Justicz.
The flaw is related to the way Apt and apt-get handle HTTP redirects when downloading packages. Apt fetches packages over plain-old HTTP, rather than a more secure HTTPS connection, and uses cryptographic signatures to check whether the downloaded contents are legit and haven’t been tampered with.
This unfortunately means a man-in-the-middle (MITM) miscreant who was able to intercept and tamper with a victim’s network connection could potentially inject a redirect into the HTTP headers to change the URL used to fetch the package.
And the hacker would be able to control the hashes used by Apt to check the downloaded package, passing the package manager legit values to masquerade the fetched malware as sanctioned software.
All in all, users can be fed malware that’s run as root during installation, allowing it to commandeer the machine.
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As an added wrinkle, Apt is updated by Apt itself. And seeing as the update mechanism is insecure, folks need to take extra steps to install the security fix securely. Admins will want to first disable redirects (see below) and then go through the usual apt update and upgrade steps.
$ sudo apt update -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false $ sudo apt upgrade -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false
Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including various ad blockers.
Adblock Plus will most likely not be affected, though similar third-party plugins will, for reasons we will explain. The drafted changes will also limit the capabilities available to extension developers, ostensibly for the sake of speed and safety. Chromium forms the central core of Google Chrome, and, soon, Microsoft Edge.
In a note posted Tuesday to the Chromium bug tracker, Raymond Hill, the developer behind uBlock Origin and uMatrix, said the changes contemplated by the Manifest v3 proposal will ruin his ad and content blocking extensions, and take control of content away from users.
Content blockers may be used to hide or black-hole ads, but they have broader applications. They’re predicated on the notion that users, rather than anyone else, should be able to control how their browser presents and interacts with remote resources.
Manifest v3 refers to the specification for browser extension manifest files, which enumerate the resources and capabilities available to browser extensions. Google’s stated rationale for making the proposed changes, cutting off blocking plugins, is to improve security, privacy and performance, and supposedly to enhance user control.
uBlock origin is not only an ad blocker but also an important privacy and security tool
Supermarkets create cheap “magic boxes” with end of life food in them. You can see where to pick them up on the app. Jumbo NL has started a pilot in 13 shops.
Het van oorsprong Deense initiatief Too Good To Go heeft na één jaar in Nederland meer dan 200.000 maaltijden gered van de vuilnisbak. De gelijknamige app heeft ondertussen al meer dan 250.000 geregistreerde gebruikers en meer dan 1000 partners met dekking in alle provincies in Nederland.
Op de kaart of in de lijst in de app kunnen consumenten bekijken welke locaties iets lekkers voor ze klaar hebben liggen tegen sluitingstijd. Vervolgens bestellen en betalen zij direct in de app.
Sinds gisteren is bij Jumbo een pilot met Too Goo To Go in 13 winkels gestart. De pilot duurt een maand en is de eerste stap op weg naar een mogelijke landelijke uitrol.
Gebruikers zien in de Too Good To Go app welke Jumbo winkels een Magic Box aanbieden. Ze rekenen deze vervolgens af via de app en kunnen de verrassingsbox binnen een afgesproken tijdsslot ophalen in de winkel. De prijs is altijd een derde van de daadwerkelijke waarde: een box met een waarde van 15 euro kost dus slechts 5 euro.
Deelnemers aan de pilot zijn elf winkels in Amsterdam – waaronder de City winkels – en Foodmarkt Amsterdam en een City in Groningen.
Winkels bepalen zelf hoe ze de box samenstellen, waarbij beschikbaarheid en variatie belangrijke criteria zijn.
Vanaf vandaag is de stad Wageningen ook als locatie toegevoegd aan de app. Om de impact van de app van Too Good To Go op het consumentengedrag te meten en om te bepalen wat de volgende stukjes van de puzzel moeten worden, start Too Good To Go in samenwerking met Wageningen University & Research een onderzoek naar de verandering in bewustwording en het gedrag rond voedselverspilling.
Too Good To Go is al actief in negen Europese landen.
Source: 250.000 gebruikers voor app Too Good To Go – Emerce