Jenny McCarthy "In Serious Talks" to Join The View as Joy Behar's Replacement

An insider tells Us Weekly that Jenny McCarthy is "in serious talks" to join The View as Joy Behar's replacement, and Brooke Shields will replace Elisabeth Hasselbeck in the fall. Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage
Make room on the couch! Frequent View guest cohost Jenny McCarthy may be joining the ABC morning talk show full-time.

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"She is in serious talks right now," an insider tells Us Weekly of the star, 40, who is currently hosting her own low-rated chatfest on VH1. "Her show isn't quite working out, so she's definitely open to it."

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The sassy single mom would replace Joy Behar, 70, when the comedian moves on in August, reveals another source. "The cast and crew get a kick out of Jenny," adds a set source. "She's a good fit. She may not be able to carry a show, but she works well with a group ensemble."

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A third insider adds Brooke Shields, 48, is also in talks to replace Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 36, come fall. Us exclusively revealed in March that Hasselbeck will not be returning as a cohost, but she has yet to confirm the news.

In addition to Behar announcing her departure from the show, Barbara Walters revealed in May that she plans to retire in summer 2014.

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Cisco fixes serious vulnerabilities in email, Web and content security appliances

Cisco Systems released security patches for its email, Web and content security appliances in order to address vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute commands on the underlying OS or disrupt critical processes.

 

The vulnerabilities affect different versions of the Cisco IronPort AsyncOS operating system that's used in the Cisco Content Security Management Appliance, the Cisco Email Security Appliance and the Cisco Web Security Appliance.

 

Releases 7.1 and prior, 7.3, 7.5 and 7.6 of the software in the Cisco Email Security Appliance are affected by three vulnerabilities, one that allows remote attackers to inject and execute commands with elevated privileges through the Web interface and two that could be used to crash the management graphical user interface (GUI) or the IronPort Spam Quarantine service and cause other critical processes to become unresponsive.

 

Exploiting the command injection vulnerability requires authentication via the Web interface with at least a low privilege account, but the denial-of-service vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication.

 

Users of the 7.1 branch should upgrade to version 7.1.5-016 or later, users of the 7.3 branch should upgrade to version 8.0.0-671 and users of the 7.5 and 7.6 branches should upgrade to 7.6.3-019 or later, Cisco said in a security advisory published Wednesday. Releases in the 8.0 branch are not affected.

 

Branches 7.2 and prior, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9 and 8.0 of the Cisco Content Security Management Appliance software are affected by the same command injection and denial-of-service vulnerabilities as the Cisco Email Security Appliance software.

 

All of the vulnerabilities are patched in versions 7.9.1-102 and 8.0.0-404, Cisco said in a separate advisory. Users of 7.2 and prior, 7.7 and 7.8 branches are advised to upgrade to version 7.9.1-102 or later of the software. The 8.1 versions are not affected.

 

Releases 7.1 and prior, 7.5 and 7.7 of the Cisco Web Security Appliance software are vulnerable to two authenticated command injection vulnerabilities and one management GUI denial-of-service vulnerability. Some of the vulnerabilities are the same as those affecting the Cisco Email Security Appliance software.

 

The software releases that include fixes for all three Cisco Email Security Appliance vulnerabilities are 7.5.1-201 and 7.7.0-602. Users of the 7.1 and prior versions are advised to upgrade to 7.5.1-201 or later.

 

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Researcher nets $20K for finding serious Facebook flaw

A U.K.-based researcher has netted US$20,000 for spotting a very serious flaw in Facebook that could have allowed an attacker to take over anyone's account with minimal effort.

The flaw was fixed by Facebook about a month ago, wrote Jack Whitten, an application security engineer who posted a post-mortem on his blog.

Whitten found it was possible to reset the password of anyone's account by exploiting an error in how Facebook lets users link their mobile phone to their account for purposes such as receiving updates over SMS.

Facebook sends a verification code by SMS when a user registers a phone. But Whitten found it was possible to modify the "profile_id" field within the mobile confirmation form to that of a different user.

Facebook then asks for a password but not the one of the potential victim, Whitten wrote. The account of the victim is then inadvertently linked with the attacker.

Whitten then initiated a password reset on the victim's account. The code needed to reset that password was sent to Whitten's phone, along with a link to a password reset page.

"We enter this code into the form, choose a new password, and we're done. The account is ours," Whitten wrote.

A flaw such as the one found by Whitten would have had value among cyberattackers seeking to abuse Facebook accounts for spam or for the theft of personal data.

"The bounty assigned to this bug was $20,000, clearly demonstrating the severity of the issue," he wrote.

Whitten, who goes by the screen name "fin1te," has been recognized for finding vulnerabilities by Google, Facebook and Etsy.