ThreatList: $1.7M is the Average Cost of a Cyber-Attack

The average cost estimate for cleaning up a cyberattack comes in at around $1.1 million, according to a recent survey. But this is actually a rosy view: For those organizations that actually calculate versus estimate the real cost of an attack, that number increases significantly to $1.67 million...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10851

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service...

Microsoft Skype for Business and Lync Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft Office is a suite of office software products.Skype for Business is one of the integrated communication platforms for businesses. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft Skype for Business and Lync. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the target service t...

CVE-2018-3264

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite subcomponent: Kernel. The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successf...

CVE-2018-2888

Vulnerability in the MICROS Retail-J component of Oracle Retail Applications subcomponent: Back Office. Supported versions that are affected are 10.2.x, 11.0.x, 12.0.x, 12.1.x, 12.1.1.x,12.1.2.x and 13.1.x. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows physical access to compromise MICROS Retail-J...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-2799

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: JAXP. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u171, 8u162 and 10; Java SE Embedded: 8u161; JRockit: R28.3.17. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network...

Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service

Equifax has re-opened a Web site that lets anyone look up the salary history of a large portion of the American workforce using little more than a person's Social Security number and their date of birth. The big-three credit bureau took the site down just hours after I wrote about it on Oct. 8, a...

The vulnerability of the ReadPSDImage function (coders/psd.c) in the ImageMagick console graphics editor allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ReadPSDImage function coders/psd.c in the console-based image editing tool ImageMagick is related to the exhaustion of memory resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions remotely...

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors allows a perpetrator to obtain confidential information or cause service failures.

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors is related to insufficient checking of the ports accessed by the attackers. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to cause service failures or obtain confidential information such as changing the zero pointer...

Man Accidentally Destroyed Production Database on First Day of His Job

By Waqas We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are fatal ending up with devastating consequences just like one of those Amazon engineers whos typo error caused a major service outage worldwide. But then theres this man /cscareerthrowaway567 who recently posted on Reddit explaining that he...

Code injection

Atlassian Eucalyptus before 4.4.1, when in EDGE mode, allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to cause a denial of service E2 service outage via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2017-3504

Vulnerability in the Automatic Service Request ASR component of Oracle Support Tools subcomponent: ASR Manager. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.7. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Automatic Service Reque...

F5 BIG-IP Product Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-04672)

The F5 BIG-IP is a load balancer that uses a variety of distribution algorithms to distribute network requests to available servers in a server cluster, enabling network visitors to have the best possible networking experience by managing incoming Web data traffic and increasing effective network...

The vulnerabilities of Adobe Reader and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, as well as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, allow a perpetrator to trigger service interruptions or execute arbitrary codes.

The vulnerabilities of PDF viewer programs such as Adobe Reader and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, as well as PDF editing programs like Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, are due to an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allo...

SAP Message Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

SAP Message Server is responsible for communication between application servers. A denial of service vulnerability exists in SAP Message Server. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition...

CVE-2016-6898

XML external entity XXE vulnerability in the Hyper Management Module HMM in Huawei E9000 rack servers with software before V100R001C00SPC296 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service web service outage via a crafted XML document...

CVE-2016-6898

CVE-2016-6898 affects Huawei E9000 rack servers’ Hyper Management Module (HMM). A XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in user-supplied XML documents, allowing remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a web service denial of service. Impact is described as partial con...

CVE-2016-4530

OSIsoft PI SQL Data Access Server aka OLE DB 2016 1.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service service outage and data loss via a message...

The vulnerabilities of PDF viewer programs such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader Document Cloud, and PDF editing programs like Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud and Adobe Acrobat allow attackers to cause service interruptions or execute arbitrary codes.

The vulnerabilities of PDF viewer programs such as Adobe Reader and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, as well as PDF editing programs like Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud and Adobe Acrobat, are due to buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow a malicious actor to execute...

CVE-2016-2280

Buffer overflow in RDISERVER in Honeywell Uniformance Process History Database PHD R310, R320, and R321 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service service outage via unspecified vectors...