Cybersecurity Law Casebook

Robert Chesney teaches cybersecurity at the University of Texas School of Law. He recently published a fantastic casebook, which is a good source for anyone studying this...

A Dozen Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Bluetooth LE Powered Devices

A team of cybersecurity researchers late last week disclosed the existence of 12 potentially severe security vulnerabilities, collectively named 'SweynTooth ,' affecting millions of Bluetooth-enabled wireless smart devices worldwide—and worryingly, a few of which haven't yet been patched. All...

A Dozen Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Bluetooth LE Powered Devices

A team of cybersecurity researchers late last week disclosed the existence of 12 potentially severe security vulnerabilities, collectively named 'SweynTooth,' affecting millions of Bluetooth-enabled wireless smart devices worldwide—and worryingly, a few of which haven't yet been patched. All...

CVE-2019-19193

The Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral implementation on Texas Instruments SIMPLELINK-CC2640R2-SDK through 3.30.00.20 and BLE-STACK through 1.5.0 before Q4 2019 for CC2640R2 and CC2540/1 devices does not properly restrict the advertisement connection request packet on reception, allowing attackers i...

CVE-2019-19193

The Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral implementation on Texas Instruments SIMPLELINK-CC2640R2-SDK through 3.30.00.20 and BLE-STACK through 1.5.0 before Q4 2019 for CC2640R2 and CC2540/1 devices does not properly restrict the advertisement connection request packet on reception, allowing attackers i...

CVE-2019-17520

The Bluetooth Low Energy implementation on Texas Instruments SDK through 3.30.00.20 for CC2640R2 devices does not properly restrict the SM Public Key packet on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service crash via crafted packets...

CVE-2019-17520

The Bluetooth Low Energy implementation on Texas Instruments SDK through 3.30.00.20 for CC2640R2 devices does not properly restrict the SM Public Key packet on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service crash via crafted packets...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral implementation on Texas Instruments SIMPLELINK-CC2640R2-SDK through 3.30.00.20 and BLE-STACK through 1.5.0 before Q4 2019 for CC2640R2 and CC2540/1 devices does not properly restrict the advertisement connection request packet on reception, allowing attackers i...

Code injection

The Bluetooth Low Energy implementation on Texas Instruments SDK through 3.30.00.20 for CC2640R2 devices does not properly restrict the SM Public Key packet on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service crash via crafted packets...

CVE-2019-19193

The Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral implementation on Texas Instruments SIMPLELINK-CC2640R2-SDK through 3.30.00.20 and BLE-STACK through 1.5.0 before Q4 2019 for CC2640R2 and CC2540/1 devices does not properly restrict the advertisement connection request packet on reception, allowing attackers i...

CVE-2019-19193

CVE-2019-19193 affects TI Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral in SIMPLELINK-CC2640R2-SDK (up to 3.30.00.20) and BLE-STACK (up to 1.5.0) for CC2640R2 and CC2540/1. The issue is that the advertisement connection request packet is not properly restricted on reception, allowing attackers in radio range t...

CVE-2019-17520

The CVE-2019-17520 entry concerns the Bluetooth Low Energy implementation in Texas Instruments SDK for CC2640R2 devices (through 3.30.00.20). Affected component: Secure Manager Protocol (SMP) handling of the SM Public Key packet. Root cause stated: improper restriction of the SMP public key recep...

CVE-2019-17520

The Bluetooth Low Energy implementation on Texas Instruments SDK through 3.30.00.20 for CC2640R2 devices does not properly restrict the SM Public Key packet on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service crash via crafted packets...

CVE-2019-19193

The Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral implementation on Texas Instruments SIMPLELINK-CC2640R2-SDK through 3.30.00.20 and BLE-STACK through 1.5.0 before Q4 2019 for CC2640R2 and CC2540/1 devices does not properly restrict the advertisement connection request packet on reception, allowing attackers i...

CVE-2019-17520

The Bluetooth Low Energy implementation on Texas Instruments SDK through 3.30.00.20 for CC2640R2 devices does not properly restrict the SM Public Key packet on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service crash via crafted packets. Recent assessments: pbarry-r7 at Apr...

Scammers Dupe Texas School District Out of $2.3M

A Texas school district, based outside of Austin, Tex., has lost $2.3 million after falling victim to an email scam. The Manor Independent School District encompasses 8,000 students from elementary to high school. Police told local news outlets that the incident started in early November and...

south-texas.focus.tv Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1031838 Security Researcher devl00p Helped patch 2988 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 15 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting south-texas.focus.tv...

Ransomware Attack Hits Data Center Provider CyrusOne: Report

U.S. data center provider CyrusOne has been hit by a ransomware attack, which has impacted six of its managed services customers, a report has found. CyrusOne, which is based in Texas and is one of the biggest data center providers in the U.S., serves more than 185 of Fortune 1000 customers...

400 Vet Locations Nipped by Ryuk Ransomware

National Veterinary Associates NVA has been hit with the Ryuk ransomware, in an attack that affects 400 clinics across the country. The California company said that it could take a week for its facilities to be fully back up and running normally. Patient records, payment systems and practice...

CVE-2019-15948

Texas Instruments CC256x and WL18xx dual-mode Bluetooth controller devices, when LE scan mode is used, allow remote attackers to trigger a buffer overflow via a malformed Bluetooth Low Energy advertising packet, to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. This affects...