Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw in a Half-Million Pacemakers

About 350,000 implantable defilibrators are up for a firmware update, to address potentially life-threatening vulnerabilities. Abbott formerly St. Jude Medical has released another upgrade to the firmware installed on certain implantable cardioverter defibrillator ICD or cardiac resynchronization...

Orangeworm Mounts Espionage Campaign Against Healthcare

A freshly minted attack group dubbed Orangeworm has been uncovered, deploying a custom backdoor in mostly healthcare-related environments. It’s bent on laser-focused, comprehensive corporate espionage, with a noisy attack vector that shows that it’s unlikely to be related to nation-state actors...

Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Multiple Apple Products (CNVD-2018-08235)

Apple iOS, macOS High Sierra, tvOS, and watchOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system for Mac computers; tvOS is a smart TV operating system; and watchOS is a smart watch operating system. kernel is a...

CVE-2018-4150

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.3 is affected. macOS before 10.13.4 is affected. tvOS before 11.3 is affected. watchOS before 4.3 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause...

CoreText Denial of Service Vulnerability in Multiple Apple Products

Apple iOS, macOS Sierra, tvOS, and watchOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; tvOS is a smart TV operating system; and watchOS is a smart watch operating system. coreText is one of the typography engines. CoreText is a typography engine. A security...

Hackers pwn Edge, Firefox, Safari, macOS, & VirtualBox at Pwn2Own 2018

By Waqas The white hat hackers at Pwn2Own 2018, have once again proved This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers pwn Edge, Firefox, Safari, macOS, & VirtualBox at Pwn2Own 2018...

Programs Controlling ICS Robotics Are ‘Wide Open’ to Vulnerabilities

Most manufacturers have connected their operational technology – including industrial control systems and robotic equipment –to the internet, yet the lack of basic security protocols leave these companies open to cyberattacks. Industrial security company Malcrawler pinpointed these dangers at...

CVE-2018-0932

Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, and Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows information...

Update Samba Servers Immediately to Patch Password Reset and DoS Vulnerabilities

Samba maintainers have just released new versions of their networking software to patch two critical vulnerabilities that could allow unprivileged remote attackers to launch DoS attacks against servers and change any other users' passwords, including admin's. Samba is open-source software...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7541

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service hypervisor crash or gain privileges by triggering a grant-table transition from v2 to v1...

Security advisory YSA-2018-02 | Yubico

In Chrome 61, released in September, 2017, Google included a feature called WebUSB. WebUSB allows websites to request direct access to USB devices through JavaScript. A web page could potentially access and interact with a USB device interface unless the operating system reserved exclusive access...

Apple iOS/watchOS/tvOS/macOS High Sierra Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system developed by Apple for the iPhone. watchOS is the operating system for the Apple Watch. tvOS is the Apple TV design system, based on iOS. mac OS is a set of operating systems that run on Apple's Macintosh series of computers. A memory corruption vulnerability exis...

CVE-2018-6356

Jenkins before 2.107 and Jenkins LTS before 2.89.4 did not properly prevent specifying relative paths that escape a base directory for URLs accessing plugin resource files. This allowed users with Overall/Read permission to download files from the Jenkins master they should not have access to. On...

CVE-2018-6356

Jenkins before 2.107 and Jenkins LTS before 2.89.4 did not properly prevent specifying relative paths that escape a base directory for URLs accessing plugin resource files. This allowed users with Overall/Read permission to download files from the Jenkins master they should not have access to. On...

CVE-2018-0866

Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 and R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016 allows remote code execution, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka...

Bingo, Amigo! Jackpotting: ATM malware from Latin America to the World

Introduction Of all the forms of attack against financial institutions around the world, the one that brings traditional crime and cybercrime together the most is the malicious ecosystem that exists around ATM malware. Criminals from different backgrounds work together with a single goal in mind:...

Meltdown and Spectre Attacks | Cloud Foundry

Severity Advisory/Critical Description Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a maliciou...

Meltdown / Spectre Mitigation Is a Work in Progress

Since researchers disclosed the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on Jan. 3, vendors and IT departments have been consumed trying to figure out how to properly address the potentially devastating effects of these kernel-level bugs. By now, one thing we know for sure is that dealing with the...

Mozilla Firefox Security Advisories (MFSA2018-01, MFSA2018-01) - Windows

Mozilla Firefox is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";...

[Guide] How to Protect Your Devices Against Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

Recently uncovered two huge processor vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre have taken the whole world by storm, while vendors are rushing out to patch the vulnerabilities in its products. The issues apply to all modern processors and affect nearly all operating systems Windows, Linux,...