DuckDuckgo is Introducing Email Protection

DuckDuckGo has announced the launching of Email Protection, a new feature that will protect email privacy without switching email services.  This can be done by creating a free email address at DuckDuckgo. This email will look like this, personal @duck.com. Emails sent to it will be forwarded to your regular inbox, with creepy email trackers removed.

You can generate unique private email addresses in the DuckDuckGo app and extension so you can’t be tracked by your email address.

(Source: DuckDuckgo)

New Linux Kernel Bug Lets You Get Root on Most Modern Distros

Unprivileged attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel’s filesystem layer on vulnerable devices.

Qualys researchers have discovered the LPE security flaw tracked as CVE-2021-33909 which is present in the filesystem layer used to manage user data, a feature universally used by all major (Linux) operating systems.

According to Qualys’ research, the vulnerability impacts all Linux kernel versions released since 2014.

Once successfully exploited on a vulnerable system, the attackers get full root privileges on default installations of many modern distributions.

(Source: Bleeping Computers)

Experts Warn Of A 16-Year-Old Vulnerability (CVE-2021-3438)

Researchers from SentinelOne have discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed driver. The discovery was casually made several months ago, while experts were configuring a brand new HP printer, and noticed that an old printer driver from 2005 called SSPORT.SYS was triggering an alert by Process Hacker.

(Source: Security Affairs)

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