S3 Ep73: Ransomware with a difference, dirty Linux pipes, and much more [Podcast]

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Even read-only files can be written to, leading to a dangerously general purpose elevation-of-privilege attack.
This bug is fiendishly hard to exploit – but if you patch, it won’t be there to exploit at all.
An elevation of privilege bug that could let a “mostly harmless” user give themselves a instant root shell
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Imagine if someone who didn’t have your password could sneakily modify data that was encrypted with it.
Microsoft Edge for Linux makes an Official landing.
Got Linux? Here’s a bug you weren’t expecting, in software you might not know you have.
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