Protect Yourself from Holiday Cyber Threats – Ask the Howlers, Episode 16 Highlights

In episode 16 of “Ask the Howlers,” host Stacia Tympanick, senior solution engineer, met up with Ryan Hendricks, staff architect and manager, to discuss the latest topics concerning cybersecurity impacting the online holiday shopping season. Check out some highlights from the discussion and gain...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Azure Sphere is a secure, advanced application platform with built-in communications and security features for connected devices. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure Sphere versions prior to 20.08. No detailed vulnerability details are provided at this time...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-17729)

Azure Sphere is a secure, advanced application platform with built-in communications and security features for connected devices. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure Sphere versions prior to 20.09. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain control of the...

Cyber Security Awareness: A Critical Checklist

October 2020 marks the 17th year of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month, where users and organizations are encouraged to double their efforts to be aware of cybersecurity issues in all their digital dealings—and to take concrete steps to increase their privacy and security as necessary. The...

Smart DNS for the New Network Edge

People depend on the internet for just about everything: interacting, learning, transacting, traveling, working, and more. At the same time, the wireless evolution to 4G -- and soon 5G and Wi-Fi everywhere -- has given birth to an era of connected cars, smart sensors, and a multitude of other...

Researchers Warn of Flaw Affecting Millions of IoT Devices

Researchers are urging connected-device manufacturers to ensure they have applied patches addressing a flaw in a module used by millions of Internet-of-Things IoT devices. If exploited, researchers speculated that the flaw could allow attackers to knock out a city’s electricity or even overdose a...

20 Years of Edge Computing

How long will you wait for something? That depends on what you're waiting for, of course. But in your daily interactions, think about how many "things" you interact with where you expect the response to be instantaneous -- tapping on mobile apps; logging in and transacting with a retailer or a...

A New Gadget Stops Voice Assistants From Snooping on You

Meet LeakyPick, the low-cost audio spy detector for your Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and other network-connected devices...

New Ripple20 Flaws Put Billions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk of Hacking

The Department of Homeland Security and CISA ICS-CERT today issued a critical security advisory warning about over a dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting billions of Internet-connected devices manufactured by many vendors across the globe. Dubbed "Ripple20," the set of 19...

CVE-2020-1211

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Connected Devices Platform Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2020-1211

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Connected Devices Platform Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Connected Devices Platform Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2020-1211

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Connected Devices Platform Service handles objects in memory, aka 'Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2020-1211

CVE-2020-1211 is confirmed in OSV as an elevation of privilege in the Connected Devices Platform Service. The description states the vulnerability stems from how the service handles objects in memory, enabling an attacker to gain elevated code execution privileges. The Connected Devices Platform ...

IoT Security Is a Mess. Privacy 'Nutrition' Labels Could Help

Just like with foods that display health information the package, researchers are exploring a tool that details how connected devices manage data...

Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Connected Devices Platform Service handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker...

KB4561616: Windows 10 Version 1607 and Windows Server 2016 June 2020 Security Update

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4561616. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the printconfig.dll handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execu...

The vulnerability of Thunderbolt devices’ microcontrollers, related to errors in the implementation of backward compatibility mechanisms, allows attackers to gain direct access to the memory of computing devices to which Thunderbolt-enabled devices are connected.

The vulnerability of Thunderbolt device microcontrollers is related to errors in the implementation of backward compatibility mechanisms. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain direct access to the memory of computing devices, to which Thunderbolt-enabled devices are connecte...

The vulnerability of Thunderbolt devices’ microcontrollers stems from the use of inadequate firmware verification schemes. This allows attackers to gain direct access to the memory of computing devices, which are connected to Thunderbolt interfaces.

The vulnerability of Thunderbolt device microcontrollers is related to the use of inadequate firmware verification schemes. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain direct access to the memory of the computing device, to which Thunderbolt devices are connected...

Design/Logic Flaw

An open port used for debugging in SWARCOs CPU LS4000 Series with versions starting with G4... grants root access to the device without access control via network. A malicious user could use this vulnerability to get access to the device and disturb operations with connected devices...