Security News

Pwn2Own Tokyo Roundup: Amazon Echo, Routers and Smart TVs Fall to Hackers
2019-11-08 16:09

The latest edition of the bi-annual hacking contest saw creative exploits in new device categories.

Cisco fixes small business routers, kills eavesdropping vulnerability in conferencing devices
2019-11-08 09:01

Cisco has released security updates for a variety of its products – owners of Small Business RV Series Routers, Web Security Appliances and TelePresence devices should pay extra attention. Small...

Cisco Patches Vulnerabilities in Small Business Routers, RoomOS Software
2019-11-07 18:35

A new set of security patches that Cisco released this week fixes multiple vulnerabilities across products such as Small Business Routers, TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint, RoomOS, and others. read more

Bug Hunters Earn $195,000 for Hacking TVs, Routers, Phones at Pwn2Own
2019-11-06 16:51

White hat hackers have earned a total of $195,000 for demonstrating vulnerabilities in TVs, routers and smartphones on the first day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 contest taking place these days...

MikroTik Router Vulnerabilities Can Lead to Backdoor Creation
2019-10-29 15:29

A chain of vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers could allow an attacker to gain a backdoor. The chain starts with DNS poisoning, goes on to downgrading the installed version of MikroTik's RouterOS...

No Patch for Critical Code Execution Flaw Affecting D-Link Routers
2019-10-09 07:23

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting several D-Link routers that reached their end of life (EOL) remains unpatched. read more

D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched
2019-10-07 18:16

CVE-2019-16920 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute code on a target device.

Magecart Hackers Target L7 Routers
2019-09-27 07:11

One of the financially motivated threat actors operating under the Magecart umbrella appears to be testing malicious code to inject into commercial-grade layer 7 (L7) routers, IBM reports. read more

Cisco Patches 13 High-Severity Router and Switch Bugs
2019-09-26 16:26

One Cisco bug impacting its 800 and 1000 series routers had a CVSS severity score of 9.9.

Cybercriminals plan to make L7 routers serve card stealing code
2019-09-26 09:54

One of the Magecart cybercriminal groups is testing a new method for grabbing users’ credit card info: malicious skimming code that can be loaded into files used by L7 routers. What is Magecart?...