Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
On Friday, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced security updates for BIND DNS software that address two vulnerabilities rated with a âmediumâ severity rating. Both vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, the first issue tracked as CVE-2018-5737 can also cause severe operational problems such as degradation of the service. “A problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2018
Researchers Paulos Yibelo explored a vulnerability he found in SaferVPN Chrome Extension. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-10308 should help malicious actors to retrieve vital information such as IP addresses when a user visits a website. After my last month’s finding in Hotspot Shield, I decided to look at and audit more VPNs to see how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2018
Security experts at Ciscoâs Talos group have discovered a total of 17 vulnerabilities in Moxa EDR-810 industrial routers manufactured by Moxa. The Moxa EDR-810 is an integrated industrial multiport router that implements firewall, NAT, VPN and managed Layer 2 switch capabilities. These devices are used in industrial environments to protect systems such as PLC and SCADA systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2018
Maintainers at the Samba project have released new versions of the popular networking software to fix two critical vulnerabilities. Maintainers at the Samba project have released new versions of the popular open-source networking software to address two critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by unprivileged remote attackers to launch DoS attacks against servers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise issued a security patch to address a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8987) in HP remote management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued a security patch to address a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8987) in its remote management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3 that equip the family of HP ProLiant servers. The Hewlett-Packard iLO is composed of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2017
The Exim Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, sys admins have to apply the workaround asap. Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet, it is the most popular MTA on the Internet. The Internet mail message […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2017
Cisco addressed 15 flaws in its products, including 2 flaws that could be exploited by attackers to trigger a DoS condition or bypass local authentication. Cisco addressed 15 vulnerabilities affecting a dozen products, including two high severity flaws that could be exploited by attackers to trigger a denial of service condition or bypass local authentication. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2017
Cyber security experts disclosed the existence of 10 unpatched security flaws in dozens of Linksys routers widely used today. The IOActive senior security consultant Tao Sauvage and the independent security researcher Antide Petit have reported more than a dozen of unpatched security vulnerabilities affecting 25 different Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers models. The security duo published […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2017
A flaw in Cisco NetFlow Generation Appliance tracked as CVE-2017-3826, could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a DoS condition. “A vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) decoder of the Cisco NetFlow Generation Appliance (NGA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to hang or unexpectedly reload, causing a denial […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
A new serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was patched this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software. A security serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-3135, was patched this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software. The vulnerability in the BIND DNS software was reported by Ramesh Damodaran and Aliaksandr Shubnik of […]
