Tag: vulnerabilities

January 17, 2020

The challenge ran between October 9 and November 15, 2019, and was the result of a partnership between the Defense Digital Service, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and hacker-powered pentesting platform HackerOne. The second Army bug bounty program saw […]

January 10, 2020

The vulnerability, dubbed Cable Haunt and tracked as CVE-2019-19494, was identified by researchers from Lyrebirds and an independent expert. They’ve reproduced the attack on ten cable modems from Sagemcom, Netgear, Technicolor and COMPAL, but other manufacturers also likely use the […]

January 8, 2020

With the international political situation becoming increasingly fraught and divisive, it is hard to ignore the shadow of foreign interference looming over electoral proceedings around the world. Not only are the US elections arguably some of the most influential on […]

December 17, 2019

F-Secure consultants have discovered several exploitable vulnerabilities in Barco’s ClickShare wireless presentation system. Attackers can use the flaws to intercept and manipulate information during presentations, steal passwords and other confidential information, and install backdoors and other malware. Popular attack targets […]

December 2, 2019

A critical vulnerability affecting some Relion protection devices from ABB can be exploited to take control of a device or cause it to become inoperable, the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last week. The flaw affects Relion […]

November 12, 2019

A number of Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers series were found to be vulnerable to a couple of attacks, and Cisco was quick to explain what the vulnerabilities were and that the patches were issued. Cisco confirmed that command […]

November 4, 2019

Security researchers have recently found that almost “all modern computers” are vulnerable to a modified version of the old cold boot attacks.  This new version, discovered by a Finnish company last year, can interfere with a machine’s firmware in order […]

October 31, 2019

Future attacks on industrial control system (ICS) networks may inflict even more damage in the long run, according to new research. Analysts expect them to evolve from attacks that have immediate, direct impact to those with multiple stages and attack […]

October 28, 2019

Although the total number of IaaS cloud vulnerabilities is still small and the technology relatively young, volumes are increasing year-over-year at a steady rate, an expected to hit 50-percent growth by the end of 2019, Skybox reveals. Key findings of […]

October 7, 2019

Cisco has fixed 18 high-impact vulnerabilities affecting several of its security offerings and is advising administrators to test and implement the offered security updates as soon as possible. “Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized […]