Antivirus Firm Kaspersky launches Its Own Secure Operating System

The popular cyber security and antivirus company Kaspersky has unveiled its new hack-proof operating system: Kaspersky OS. The new operating system has been in development for last 14 years and has chosen to design from scratch rather than relying on Linux. Kaspersky OS makes its debut on a...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : TMM vulnerability (K87416818)

The Traffic Management Microkernel TMM may suffer from a memory leak while handling certain types of TCP traffic. CVE-2016-7476 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from F5 Networks BIG-IP Solution K87416818. The text description o...

CVE-2016-5022

F5 BIG-IP LTM, Analytics, APM, ASM, and Link Controller 11.2.x before 11.2.1 HF16, 11.3.x, 11.4.x, 11.5.x before 11.5.4 HF2, 11.6.x before 11.6.1 HF1, and 12.x before 12.0.0 HF3; BIG-IP AAM, AFM, and PEM 11.4.x, 11.5.x before 11.5.4 HF2, 11.6.x before 11.6.1 HF1, and 12.x before 12.0.0 HF3; BIG-I...

CVE-2016-5023

Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP systems 11.2.1 HF11 through HF15, 11.4.1 HF4 through HF10, 11.5.3 through 11.5.4, 11.6.0 HF5 through HF7, and 12.0.0, when configured with a TCP profile, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service Traffic Management Microkernel restart via crafted network...

CVE-2016-4545

Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP 11.5.4, when SSL profiles are enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption and Traffic Management Microkernel restart via an SSL alert during the handshake...

CVE-2016-4545

Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP 11.5.4, when SSL profiles are enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption and Traffic Management Microkernel restart via an SSL alert during the handshake...

Design/Logic Flaw

Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP 11.5.4, when SSL profiles are enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption and Traffic Management Microkernel restart via an SSL alert during the handshake...

CVE-2016-4545

Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP 11.5.4, when SSL profiles are enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption and Traffic Management Microkernel restart via an SSL alert during the handshake...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Traffic Management Microkernel TMM in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers...

'The Hacker News' Weekly Roundup — 14 Most Popular Stories

To make the last week’s top cyber security threats and challenges available to you in one shot, we are once again here with our weekly round up. Last week, we came across lots of cyber security threats like the XCodeGhost malware in Apple’s App Store and lockscreen bypass bug in iOS 9 and iOS 9.0...

Is This Security-Focused Linux Kernel Really UnHackable?

Can you name which Operating System is most Secure? ...Windows, Mac, Linux or any particular Linux Distribution? Yes, we get that! It’s not an easy thing to pick. Besides Windows, Even the so-called ultra-secure Linux Distros were found to be vulnerable to various critical flaws in past years...

CVE-2015-4638

The FastL4 virtual server in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and PEM 11.3.0 through 11.5.2 and 11.6.0 through 11.6.0 HF4, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, WebAccelerator, and WOM 11.2.1 through 11.3.0, and BIG-IP PSM 11.2.1 through 11.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a...

Minix 3.3.0 - Remote TCPIP Stack Denial of Service

Minix 3.3.0 - Remote TCPIP Stack Denial of Service / ------------------------------------------------------- ||------+ MINIX =--|| ||--= Nov 2014 =--|| ||--= Mexico =--|| -- MINIX IS PRONE TO DENIAL OF SERVICE IN THE TCP/IP STACK /service/inet BY SENDING A SINGLE TCP PACKET WITH A MALFORMED TCP...

seL4 Secure Microkernel Made Open Source

General Dynamics C4 Systems and Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre NICTA today open sourced the code-base of a secure microkernel project known as seL4. Touted as “the most trustworthy general purpose microkernel in the world,” seL4 has previously been adapted b...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Traffic Management Microkernel TMM in F5 BIG-IP LTM, APM, ASM, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, and WOM 10.0.0 through 10.2.2 and 11.0.0; Analytics 11.0.0; PSM 9.4.0 through 9.4.8, 10.0.0 through 10.2.4, and 11.0.0 through 11.4.1; and WebAccelerator 9.4.0 through 9.4.8, 10.0.0 through...