Intel CPU vulnerability CVE-2021-0093

Incorrect default permissions in the firmware for some IntelR Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access. CVE-2021-0093 Impact An attacker may be able to exploit the Intel processor firmware to gain elevated access to resources. The following...

Intel CPU vulnerability CVE-2021-0092

Improper access control in the firmware for some IntelR Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access. CVE-2021-0092 Impact An attacker may be able to exploit the Intel processor firmware to gain elevated access to resources. The following...

Intel CPU vulnerability CVE-2021-0119

Improper initialization in the firmware for some IntelR Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access. CVE-2021-0119 Impact An attacker may be able to exploit the Intel processor firmware to gain elevated access to resources. The followin...

Intel CPU vulnerability CVE-2021-0125

Improper initialization in the firmware for some IntelR Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access. CVE-2021-0125 Impact An attacker may be able to exploit the Intel processor firmware to gain elevated access to resources. The followin...

Intel CPU vulnerability CVE-2021-0156

Improper input validation in the firmware for some IntelR Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. CVE-2021-0156 Impact An attacker may be able to exploit the Intel processor firmware to gain elevated access to resources. The...

From Pet Systems to Cattle Farm — What Happened to the Data Center?

There's something about craftsmanship. It's personal, its artistry, and it can be incredibly effective in achieving its goals. On the other hand, mass-market production can be effective in other ways, through speed, efficiency, and cost savings. The story of data centers is one of going from...

Binary vulnerability in Arista VEOS (CNVD-2022-18741)

Arista Networks is one of the leading manufacturers of networking equipment for large data centers, high performance computing systems and cloud networking solutions. A binary vulnerability exists in Arista VEOS, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack...

Binary Vulnerability in Arista VEOS

Arista Networks is one of the leading manufacturers of networking equipment for large data centers, high performance computing systems and cloud networking solutions. A binary vulnerability exists in Arista VEOS, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack...

U.S. Authorities Charge 6 Indian Call Centers Scamming Thousands of Americans

A number of India-based call centers and their directors have been indicted for their alleged role in placing tens of millions of scam calls aimed at defrauding thousands of American consumers. The indictment charged Manu Chawla, Sushil Sachdeva, Nitin Kumar Wadwani, Swarndeep Singh, Dinesh Manoh...

2022 Planning: Metrics That Matter and Curtailing the Cobra Effect

During the British rule of India, the British government became concerned about the number of cobras in the city of Delhi. The ambitious bureaucrats came up with what they thought was the perfect solution, and they issued a bounty for cobra skins. The plan worked wonderfully at first, as cobra...

Cyberattackers Hit Data of 80K Patients at Fertility Centers of Illinois

The protected health information of nearly 80,000 patients of Fertility Centers of Illinois FCI may have been pawed over by cyber intruders following a cyberattack. FCI runs four clinics across Illinois. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS Office for Civil Rights’ da...

Quantifying Log4Shell: Vulnerability on a Massive Scale

The Log4Shell vulnerability is here to stay. There is a lot of speculation about the scope and true impact of the vulnerability: While many have labeled it “severe,” information is limited on how widespread the risk is. In order to shed some light on the issue, Akamai Threat Labs is utilizing its...

Someone Is Running Lots of Tor Relays

Since 2017, someone is running about a thousand -- 10% of the total -- Tor servers in an attempt to deanonymize the network: Grouping these servers under the KAX17 umbrella, Nusenu says this threat actor has constantly added servers with no contact details to the Tor network in industrial...

Atlassian Jira 信息泄露漏洞

Atlassian Jira is a defect tracking management system from Atlassian Australia. The system is used to track and manage all types of issues and defects in the workplace. A security vulnerability exists in Atlassian Jira that originates in Atlassian Jirad's servers and data centers that allows an...

Arista Networks Arista EOS has an unspecified vulnerability

Arista Networks Arista EOS is a scalable operating system for data centers and cloud network centers from Arista Networks, U.S. A security vulnerability exists in Arista Networks Arista EOS and clouddeos, which could be exploited by an attacker to obtain passwords for use in Bidirectional...

WhatsApp to Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud

WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information such as chat messages and photos in Apple iCloud or Google Drive in a cryptographically secure manner. The optional feature,...

Army Testing Facial Recognition in Child-Care Centers

Live video feeds of daycare centers are common, but the Army wants to take their kid-monitoring capabilities to the next level. Under a new pilot program being rolled out at a Fort Jackson, S.C. child-care center, the military is looking for service providers to layer commercially available facia...

Crooks using phony call centers to spread ransomware via BazaCall attacks

By Deeba Ahmed In BazaCall, a "vishing-like" method is used in which victims are told to call a particular phone number or their subscription will expire. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crooks using phony call centers to spread ransomware via BazaCall attacks...

Phony Call Centers Tricking Users Into Installing Ransomware and Data-Stealers

An ongoing malicious campaign that employs phony call centers has been found to trick victims into downloading malware capable of data exfiltration as well as deploying ransomware on infected systems. The attacks — dubbed "BazaCall" — eschew traditional social engineering techniques that rely on...

BazaCall: Phony call centers lead to exfiltration and ransomware

Our continued investigation into BazaCall campaigns, those that use fraudulent call centers that trick unsuspecting users into downloading the BazaLoader malware, shows that this threat is more dangerous than what’s been discussed publicly in other security blogs and covered by the media. Apart...