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Friday, August 28th, 2015

    Time Event
    6:58a
    The 2015 EFF Pioneer Awards
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced
    the recipients of its Pioneer Awards for 2015: Caspar Bowden, The Citizen
    Lab, Annriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive
    Communications, and Kathy Sierra. "This extraordinary group of
    winners have all focused on the users, striving to give everyone the
    access, power, community, and protection they need in order to create and
    participate in our digital world.    "
    3:25p
    Friday's security updates

    Arch Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).

    CentOS has updated firefox (C5; C6; C7: multiple vulnerabilities) and thunderbird (C5; C6; C7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated openjdk-6 (multiple vulnerabilities) and zendframework (XML external entity attack).

    Fedora has updated maradns (F21; F22: denial of service), openssh (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), php-guzzle-Guzzle (F21; F22: XML external entity attack), php-twig (F22: code execution), php-ZendFramework2 (F21; F22: XML external entity attack), rt (F21; F22: cross-site scripting), and rubygem-rack (F21: denial of service).

    Mageia has updated drupal (M4,5: multiple vulnerabilities), python-django, python-django14 (M4,5: multiple vulnerabilities), subversion (M4,5: multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (M4,5: multiple vulnerabilities), and vlc (M4,5: code execution).

    Oracle has updated firefox (O5; O6; O7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated firefox (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (SLE11: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated cups-filters (15.04: unintended printer access) and firefox (12.04, 14.04, 15.04: multiple vulnerabilities).

    9:02p
    Starting in September, Chrome will stop auto-playing Flash ads

    Google has announced that, beginning September 1, Chrome will no longer auto-play Flash-based ads in the company's popular AdWords program. The post frames this as a move to improve browsing performance for users, and notes that most Flash ads are automatically converted to HTML5 already. Commenting on the news, The Register notes that the change should also offer some additional protection against malware delivered via Flash. Chrome will continue to auto-play Flash content in the main body of pages, however. The Register's story says the change is, in fact, just a modification of the default setting for plugin behavior, which already supports an option to disable plugin content not deemed "important." Mozilla, of course, blacklisted the Flash plugin in July, although that action only disabled the then-current, vulnerable release—which was subsequently updated.

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