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Cyber War Poses Risk of Bail-Ins to Banks and Deposits
Gold Seek British and US agents will carry out a mock cyber attack or 'cyber war games' on the Bank of England and commercial banks in City of London and on Wall Street in the coming months as part of tests on critical, but vulnerable financial infrastructure. |
A fault in a widely used component of most Linux distributions could allow an attacker to take remote control of a system after merely sending a malicious email.
The vulnerability, nicknamed “Ghost,” is in the GNU C Library known as glibc, according to security vendor Qualys, which disclosed the issue on Tuesday as many Linux distributions released patches. Glibc is a C library that defines system calls.
Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu and Novell have issued fixes. It is advised administrators should patch as soon as possible.
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