NFL Tackles Cybersecurity Concerns Ahead of 2020 Draft Day

The NFL draft is slated to start Thursday, and thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be the first virtual version of the event ever presented. This raises a few cybersecurity concerns, according to researchers and the teams themselves — but the NFL is planning on knocking the security ball...

Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption

This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications from dozens of countries since the late 1970s thanks to a microchip, according to research by de Volkskrant on Thursday. The...

The vulnerability in the implementation of the WebRTC protocol in Google Chrome browser allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to information and compromise its integrity and accessibility.

The vulnerability of the WebRTC protocol implementation in Google Chrome browser relates to the use of memory after deallocation. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to information and compromise its integrity and accessibility...

Foxit PDF Reader, PhantomPDF Open to Remote Code Execution

Foxit Software has released patches for dozens of high-severity flaws impacting its PDF reader and editor platforms. The most severe of the bugs, which exist on Windows versions of the software, enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Overall, Foxit Software...

CVE-2020-11494

A flaw was discovered in slcbump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c in CAN Communication Protocol. It allows a local attacker with special user privilege or root to read sensitive kernel stack information considering CONFIGINITSTACKALL is not enabled when a partially initialized data structure is exposed...

CVE-2020-0071

In rwt2textractdefaultlocksinfo of rwt2tndef.cc, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote code execution over NFC with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions:...

CVE-2020-0072

In rwt2thandletlvdetectrsp of rwt2tndef.cc, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote code execution over NFC with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-8....

CVE-2020-0073

In rwt2thandletlvdetectrsp of rwt2tndef.cc, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote code execution over NFC with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-8....

Are you cyber seaworthy?

The decision to set sail in a commercial vessel rests with the captain. A captain with years of experience and training, who is skilled at sailing and navigating in all conditions. Increasingly, the state of a vessel’s cyber security will affect its seaworthiness. Yet in future we may expect a...

Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF are both Chinese Foxit Foxit company a PDF document reader. A security vulnerability exists in the communication API of Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF 9.7.1.29511 and earlier versions for Windows platforms. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to...

Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF communication API Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF are both Chinese Foxit Foxit company a PDF document reader. A security vulnerability exists in the communication API in Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF 9.7.1.29511 and earlier versions for Windows platforms. The vulnerability can be exploited to execute arbitra...

Foxit PhantomPDF OCRAndExportToExcel Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of t...

Foxit PhantomPDF CombineFiles Arbitrary File Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the communication...

Foxit PhantomPDF GetFieldValue Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of t...

Foxit PhantomPDF SetFieldValue Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of t...

Foxit PhantomPDF Save Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of t...

Foxit PhantomPDF Export Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of t...

CVE-2020-3162 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Constrained Application Protocol CoAP implementation of Cisco IoT Field Network Director could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of incoming Co...

CVE-2020-3162 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Constrained Application Protocol CoAP implementation of Cisco IoT Field Network Director could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of incoming Co...

Cisco IoT Field Network Director Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Constrained Application Protocol CoAP implementation of Cisco IoT Field Network Director could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of incoming Co...