VMware and Office for Mac need patching, Microsoft can scan your firmware, and Anonymous takes credit for Atlanta police hacks

VMware and Office for Mac need patching, Microsoft can scan your firmware, and Anonymous takes credit for Atlanta police hacks

Roundup It was another week of furious firefighting in the security space, including the curious tale of a Forbes "most promising" entrepreneur indicted over alleged phishing attacks, new privacy laws in the US, software flaws and more.


VMware Tools patched for Mac bugs


Those running VMWare guest machines on Mac will want to update their software to get a security fix for VMware Tools (the software that links the guest and host machine).


A patch was released for a denial-of-service flaw (CVE-2020-3972) in Tools for Mac that would potentially allow an attacker's code from the guest machine to crash their VM. Not a particularly bad security risk, but an annoying bug, for sure.


Mind you, this bug only appears when both the ..

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