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Cisco has supplied a patch for its Video Surveillance Manager software to erase hardcoded default credentials for the root account. Admins responsible for appliances running Cisco’s surveillance software should urgently patch the flaw, which has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System Read More …
A security researcher has publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Microsoft Windows operating system (including server editions) after the company failed to patch a responsibly disclosed bug within the 120-days deadline. Discovered by Lucas Leong of the Read More …
Our water supplies, electricity and gas grids and phone networks are all vulnerable to cyber-attacks from tech-terrorists and are about to have their security beefed-up. That is because all of our utilities and essential State services are in some way Read More …
A new attack has been discovered that will cause iOS to restart or respring and macOS to freeze simply by visiting a web page that contains certain CSS & HTML. Windows and Linux users are not affected by this bug. Read More …
A security vulnerability discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon controllers has the potential to severely disrupt industrial equipment and networks. According to researchers from industrial cybersecurity firm Radiflow, the bug, tracked as CVE-2018-7789, “severely exposes the safety and availability of the ICS networks Read More …
Two days after a security researcher released details and proof-of-concept code about an unpatched Windows zero-day, one malware group had already incorporated the vulnerability in their exploit chain and was attempting to infect users around the globe. The zero-day used Read More …
A Monero cryptomining script is spreading in an ongoing campaign using the recently disclosed critical remote command-execution flaw. It was only a matter of time before attacks were seen in the wild, and now it’s happened. A known threat actor Read More …
Last month we reported about a widespread crypto-mining malware campaign that hijacked over 200,000 MikroTik routers using a previously disclosed vulnerability revealed in the CIA Vault 7 leaks. Now Chinese security researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab have discovered that out of 370,000 potentially vulnerable MikroTik Read More …
Microsoft has quickly reacted to the disclosure of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Windows operating system. On Monday, Twitter user SandboxEscaper revealed the existence of the bug on the microblogging platform. As reported by the Register, the user said: Read More …
Millions of mobile devices from eleven smartphone vendors are vulnerable to attacks carried out using AT commands, a team of security researchers has discovered. AT (ATtention) commands, or the Hayes command set, is a collection of short-string commands developed in the Read More …