Four Vulnerabilities Patched in SCADA Server

Four different remotely exploitable vulnerabilities were recently discovered and patched in a popular SCADA server. The vulnerabilities exist in some versions of IntegraXor, a SCADA server manufactured by Ecava Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian-based software company. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber...

Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS XML External Entity

OVERVIEW Timur Yunusov, Alexey Osipov, and Ilya Karpov of Positive Technologies Inc. have identified an XML external entity processing vulnerability in the Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS application. Yokogawa has produced a service pack that mitigates this vulnerability. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following...

Google Releases Security Update for Chrome

Google has released Chrome 37.0.2062.120 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update addresses multiple vulnerabilities one of which could potentially allow an attacker to cause a denial of service. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome release blog and apply the...

Microsoft Releases September 2014 Security Bulletin

Microsoft released updates to address vulnerabilities in Windows, .NET Framework, Internet Explorer and Lync Server as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2014. Some of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution, elevation of privilege, or denial of service...

Traffic Networks Firm Patches Sensor Vulnerabilities

A year after it was notified about a security vulnerability, a company in charge of manufacturing sensors used in traffic control systems has patched a series of previously disclosed bugs that could have opened the products up to a handful of exploits. A warning from the Industrial Control System...

Some Cable Modems Found to Leak Sensitive Data Via SNMP

Cable modems sold by two manufacturers expose a wide variety of sensitive information over SNMP, including usernames and passwords, WEP keys and SSIDs. Researchers who discovered the vulnerabilities say they’re trivially exploitable and plan to release Metasploit modules for them later this month...

WordPress Releases Security Update

WordPress 3.9.2 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, one of which could allow a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing. WordPress 3.7.3 or 3.8.3 users will be updated to 3.7.4 or 3.8.4. Users operating older, unsupported versions of WordPress are encouraged to...

Android App SSL Certificate Validation Errors Enumerated

A growing compilation of close to 350 Android applications that fail to perform SSL certificate validation over HTTPS has been put together by the CERT Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Researcher Will Dormann created a large spreadsheet host...

Home Depot Investigating Massive Data Breach

Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a costly data breach, and if early indications are correct, the hackers may have been on the home giant’s network longer than hackers were on Target’s systems, and a greater number of consumers may be at risk. A Home Depot representative confirmed...

Advantech WebAccess Vulnerabilities

Advisory ID Internal CORE-2014-0005 1. Advisory Information Title: Advantech WebAccess Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2014-0005 Advisory URL:http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/advantech-webaccess-vulnerabilities Date published: 2014-09-02 Date of last update: 2014-09-01 Vendors contacted:...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome 37.0.2062.94 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update includes 50 security fixes some of which could allow a remote attacker to obtain unauthorized access or cause a denial of service. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome release blog a...

Deutsche Telekom CERT Advisory [DTC-A-20140820-001] check_mk vulnerabilities

Deutsche Telekom CERT Advisory DTC-A-20140820-001 Summary: Several vulnerabilities were found in checkmk prior versions 1.2.4p4 and 1.2.5i4. The vulnerabilities are: 1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS 2 - write access to config files .mk files 3 - arbitrary code execution Recommendations:...

Secret Service Backoff point of sale malware advisory

Point-of-sale malware is a problem that apparently isn’t going away any time soon. No doubt spurred on by the massive data loss absorbed in the Target data breach and most recently Supervalu grocery chains, and UPS, which disclosed last week that 51 of its stores were victimized by credit card...

Backoff Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of Backoff malware compromising a significant number of major enterprise networks as well as small and medium businesses. US-CERT encourages administrators and operators of Point-of-Sale systems to review the Backoff malware alert to help determine if your network may be affected...

Siemens Patches DoS Vulnerability in SIMATIC S7

Siemens released an update for one of its automation systems late last week, patching a denial of service vulnerability in all versions of its SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU prior to V1.6. An advisory on the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team’s ICS-CERT website warned about the...

Breach of Patient Identification Information

US-CERT is aware of a breach of sensitive patient identification information affecting approximately 4.5 million patients and customers of Community Health Systems, Inc. As part of DHS, US-CERT is working together with the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services to assist in sharing...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome, Chrome OS and Chrome for Android. Some of these vulnerabilities could potentially allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service. Updates available include: Chrome 36.0.1985.143 for...

Microsoft Releases August 2014 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, SQL Server, Server Software, .NET Framework, and Internet Explorer as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2014. Some of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution, elevation of...

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection

US-CERT is aware of a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection. This vulnerability affects all versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection Client 11.x and 12.x running Application and Device Control. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain ful...

Nordex NC2 XSS Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory is a follow-up to the alert titled ICS-ALERT-13-304-01 Nordex NC2 – Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability that was published October 31, 2013, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Darius Freamon identified a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Nordex...