Security News

"Sierra:21" vulnerabilities impact critical infrastructure routers
2023-12-06 06:01

A set of 21 newly discovered vulnerabilities impact Sierra OT/IoT routers and threaten critical infrastructure with remote code execution, unauthorized access, cross-site scripting, authentication bypass, and denial of service attacks. The flaws discovered by Forescout Vedere Labs affect Sierra Wireless AirLink cellular routers and open-source components like TinyXML and OpenNDS. AirLink routers are highly regarded in the field of industrial and mission-critical applications due to high-performance 3G/4G/5G and WiFi and multi-network connectivity.

Qualcomm Releases Details on Chip Vulnerabilities Exploited in Targeted Attacks
2023-12-06 05:23

Chipmaker Qualcomm has released more information about three high-severity security flaws that it said came under "limited, targeted exploitation" back in October 2023. The vulnerabilities are as...

LogoFAIL: UEFI Vulnerabilities Expose Devices to Stealth Malware Attacks
2023-12-04 06:53

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code from various independent firmware/BIOS vendors (IBVs) has been found vulnerable to potential attacks through high-impact flaws in image...

Critical Zyxel NAS vulnerabilities patched, update quickly!
2023-12-01 11:21

Zyxel has patched six vulnerabilities affecting its network attached storage devices, including several command injection flaws that can be easily exploited by unauthenticated attackers. One of the six plugged security holes is an improper authentication vulnerability in the devices' authentication module, and may allow unauthenticated attackers to grab system information by sending a specially crafted URL to a vulnerable device.

Zyxel warns of multiple critical vulnerabilities in NAS devices
2023-11-30 15:11

Zyxel has addressed multiple security issues, including three critical ones that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute operating system commands on vulnerable network-attached storage devices. Zyxel NAS systems are used for storing data in a centralized location on the network.

CACTUS Ransomware Exploits Qlik Sense Vulnerabilities in Targeted Attacks
2023-11-30 11:16

A CACTUS ransomware campaign has been observed exploiting recently disclosed security flaws in a cloud analytics and business intelligence platform called Qlik Sense to obtain a foothold into...

PoCs for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities released
2023-11-29 14:32

Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities in its Unified Data Protection solution, PoCs for which have been published by Tenable researchers on Monday. Arcserve UDP is a popular enterprise data protection, backup and disaster recovery solution that improves organizations' resilience to ransomware attacks.

Warning: 3 Critical Vulnerabilities Expose ownCloud Users to Data Breaches
2023-11-25 04:00

The maintainers of the open-source file-sharing software ownCloud have warned of three critical security flaws that could be exploited to disclose sensitive information and modify files. A brief...

Friday Squid Blogging: Unpatched Vulnerabilities in the Squid Caching Proxy
2023-11-17 22:01

In a rare squid/security post, here's an article about unpatched vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

Alert: Microsoft Releases Patch Updates for 5 New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
2023-11-15 05:46

Microsoft has released fixes to address 63 security bugs in its software for the month of November 2023, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of...