CERT/CC

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2015
CERT CC warns about critical flaws in UEFI implementations

The Carnegie Mellon University CERT/CC warned about the presence of serious vulnerabilities in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The CERT/CC has issued three different advisories for security flaws identified in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (pronounced as an initialism U-E-F-I or like “unify” without the n) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2014
Netgear GS108PE Switches contain hard-coded login credentials

A vulnerability analyst at CERT/CC reported a security issue in Netgear GS108PE Prosafe Plus Switch which contains hard-coded login credentials. The CERT/CC has recently issued an alert for the presence of hard-coded login credentials in the Netgear GS108PE Prosafe Plus Switch (Vulnerability Note VU#143740). An attacker could exploit the security issue in the Netgear GS108PE Prosafe Plus Switch […]