Design/Logic Flaw

Universal Robots control box CB 3.1 across firmware versions tested on 1.12.1, 1.12, 1.11 and 1.10 does not encrypt or protect in any way the intellectual property artifacts installed from the UR+ platform of hardware and software components URCaps. These files .urcaps are stored under...

CVE-2020-10267 RVD#1489: Unprotected intelectual property in Universal Robots controller CB 3.1 across firmware versions

Universal Robots control box CB 3.1 across firmware versions tested on 1.12.1, 1.12, 1.11 and 1.10 does not encrypt or protect in any way the intellectual property artifacts installed from the UR+ platform of hardware and software components URCaps. These files .urcaps are stored under...

CVE-2020-10267

CVE-2020-10267 affects the Universal Robots control box CB 3.1 (firmware versions 1.12.1, 1.12, 1.11, 1.10) where UR+ URCaps artifacts are stored under /root/.urcaps as plain zip files containing logic for UR3/UR5/UR10. The underlying issue is that these intellectual property artifacts are not en...

CVE-2020-10267: Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Universal Robots control box CB 3.1 across firmware versions tested on 1.12.1, 1.12, 1.11 and 1.10 does not encrypt or protect in any way the intellectual property artifacts installed from the UR+ platform of hardware and software components URCaps. These files .urcaps are stored under...

PT-2020-12016

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Universal Robots control box CB 3.1 versions 1.10 through 1.12.1 Description The issue concerns the lack of encryption or protection for intellectual property artifacts installed from the UR+ platform, specifically URCaps files. These files,...

U.S. Charges Huawei with Stealing Trade Secrets from 6 Companies

The US Department of Justice DoJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI charged Huawei with racketeering and conspiring to steal trade secrets from six US firms, in a significant escalation of a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom giant that began last year. Accusing Huawei and its affiliate...

U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People's Liberation Army PLA accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. DOJ officials said the four...

U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Hackers Over Equifax Data Breach

The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans. In a joint press conference held today with the Attorney General Willi...

Why Cloud, Collaboration Breed Insider Threats

When it comes to facing insider threats, many enterprises seem to be suffering from a type of organizational cognitive dissonance – as in, they hold two, seemingly contradictory beliefs when it comes to the cloud and the collaboration tools that they use. Specifically, business leaders and...

Apple Sues Corellium Over iOS 'Replica' Security Testing Software

Apple has sued startup Corellium for copyright infringement, alleging that the company has developed “exact digital replicas” of its iPhone operating system without authorization – from the code down to the graphical user interface. While details about Florida-based Corellium on its website are...

From On-Prem to Cloud: The Complete AWS Security Checklist

This complete AWS cloud auditing security checklist outlines what it takes to protect sensitive data center security & intellectual property when securing an organization’s cloud deployment...

Tackling the Collaboration Conundrum

It’s 8 a.m. and you’ve just polished off a full cup of dark-roast coffee to jump-start your day. After booting up your PC, you instinctively open up Outlook, along with Slack or Teams or TeamViewer. While chatting with a co-worker, you recall that you need to send administrative credentials to he...

Forcing the Adversary to Pursue Insider Theft

Jack Crook pointed me toward a story by Christopher Burgess about intellectual property theft by "Hongjin Tan, a 35 year old Chinese national and U.S. legal permanent resident... who was arrested on December 20 and charged with theft of trade secrets. Tan is alleged to have stolen the trade secre...

CISO series: Secure your privileged administrative accounts with a phased roadmap

In my role, I often meet with CISOs and security architects who are updating their security strategy to meet the challenges of continuously evolving attacker techniques and cloud platforms. A frequent topic is prioritizing security for their highest value assets, both the assets that have the mos...

Threatlist: Manufacturing, a Top Target for Espionage

When it comes to cyberattack-related reconnaissance and lateral movement activity, the manufacturing industry exhibits higher than normal rates. That’s according to Vectra’s 2018 Spotlight Report on Manufacturing, which crunched data from more than 4 million devices and workloads from customer...

CVE-2017-13096

The P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property IP, as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of Rights Block to remove or relax access control. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious cases,...

CVE-2017-13093

The P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property IP, as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of encrypted IP cyphertext to insert hardware trojans. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious cases...

Code injection

The P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property IP, as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of a license-deny response to a license grant. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious cases, enable...

Design/Logic Flaw

The P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property IP, as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of Rights Block to remove or relax access control. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious cases,...

Design/Logic Flaw

The P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property IP, as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of Rights Block to remove or relax license requirement. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious case...