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Description. CWE-416 – Use After Free The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system. The vulnerability exists in “ip_reass()” routine in “ip_input.c” file while reassembling incoming packets, if the first fragment is bigger…
Written by Nov 14, 2019 | CYBERSCOOP. Sean Lyngaas An Iranian government-linked hacking group has in the last year been using small clusters of hijacked computers to infect a handful of targets that include a U.S. national security firm and a universit…
It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid.
Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization – hardware partitions, virtual machines and their hy…
For several years, digital security relied on a simple strategy — gain insight from past events, learn from them, and base security protection accordingly. However, as online threats continued to multiply, it has become more challenging for security pr…
Healthcare Organizations Continue to be a Soft Target for Phishing Attacks.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool , to date in 2019 there have been 326 “Hacking/IT Incidents” …
No individual or company is sheltered from the reach of cybercriminals. Corporate data breaches are more typical than any time ever, and notwithstanding progresses in security programming, hackers keep on getting increasingly sophisticated and hard to …
Satellite companies vying to sell to the government and defense markets know their prospective customers want them to be cyber-secure, but the absence of industry standards and guidance leaves them scratching their heads about exactly how secure they n…
The Homeland Security Department’s signature cybersecurity program is helping agencies discover scores of devices they didn’t know existed within their IT infrastructure, according to the program’s chief. Launched in 2013, the Continuous Diagnostics an…
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.8; ATTENTION : Low skill level to exploit; Vendor : Siemens; Equipment : S7-1200 CPU; Vulnerability : Exposed Dangerous Method or Function 2. RISK EVALUATION. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could expose add…
This month’s Patch Tuesday release contains updates for nearly 75 CVEs. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1429, was first exploited in the wild as a zero day and could enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code under the same privileges of the cur…