Legislation Proposed to Secure Connected IoT Devices

A Senate bill introduced today would prioritize security in connected devices, requiring providers who sell to the U.S. government to implement measures that would have been an impediment to the IoT botnet-fueled attacks against DNS provider Dyn and webhost OVH. The Internet of Things Cybersecuri...

Vulnerabilities in Car Washes

Articles about serious vulnerabilities in IoT devices and embedded systems are now dime-a-dozen. This one concerns Internet-connected car washes: A group of security researchers have found vulnerabilities in internet-connected drive-through car washes that would let hackers remotely hijack the...

Remotely Exploitable Flaw Puts Millions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk

Security researchers have discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in an open-source software development library used by major manufacturers of the Internet-of-Thing devices that eventually left millions of devices vulnerable to hacking. The vulnerability CVE-2017-9765, discovere...

openwebnet-discovery NSE Script

OpenWebNet is a communications protocol developed by Bticino since 2000. Retrieves device identifying information and number of connected devices. References: Example Usage nmap --script openwebnet-discovery Script Output | openwebnet-discover: | IP Address: 192.168.200.35 | Net Mask: 255.255.255...

FBI Releases Article on Privacy Risks Associated with Internet-Connected Children's Toys

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the privacy risks associated with Internet-connected children's toys. FBI warns that Internet-connected toys may contain "sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities - including speech...

Subaru car software vulnerability analysis—never a failure of token-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Not long ago, one from California car, information security researcher Aaron Guzman, in Australia, held a computer security conference to introduce a black into the Subaru car of the method. In his own 2017 Subaru WRX STI was found in a surprising number of software vulnerabilities, through these...

WannaCry Ransomware

Criminals go where the money is, and cybercriminals are no exception. And right now, the money is in ransomware. It's a simple scam. Encrypt the victim's hard drive, then extract a fee to decrypt it. The scammers can't charge too much, because they want the victim to pay rather than give up on th...

CVE-2017-5176

A DLL Hijack issue was discovered in Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench CCW. The following versions are affected: Connected Components Workbench - Developer Edition, v9.01.00 and earlier: 9328-CCWDEVENE, 9328-CCWDEVZHE, 9328-CCWDEVFRE, 9328-CCWDEVITE, 9328-CCWDEVDEE, 9328-CCWDEVES...

CVE-2017-5176

Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench (CCW) suffers a DLL Hijack vulnerability (CVE-2017-5176) affecting CCW Developer Edition v9.01.00 and earlier (including 9328-CCWDEVENE, ZHE, FRE, ITE, DEE, DEVESE, DEVPTE) and CCW Free Standard Edition (all languages) prior to version 10.00. The...

CVE-2017-5176

A DLL Hijack issue was discovered in Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench CCW. The following versions are affected: Connected Components Workbench - Developer Edition, v9.01.00 and earlier: 9328-CCWDEVENE, 9328-CCWDEVZHE, 9328-CCWDEVFRE, 9328-CCWDEVITE, 9328-CCWDEVDEE, 9328-CCWDEVES...

Serviio PRO 1.8 DLNA Media Streaming Server REST API Arbitrary Code Execution Exploit

Serviio PRO DLNA Media Streaming Server version 1.8.0.0 PRO, 1.7.1, 1.7.0, and 1.6.1 suffers from a REST API arbitrary code execution vulnerability. !/usr/bin/env python Serviio PRO 1.8 DLNA Media Streaming Server REST API Arbitrary Code Execution Vendor: Petr Nejedly | Six Lines Ltd Product web...

Malware Hunter — Shodan's new tool to find Malware C&C Servers

Rapidly growing, insecure internet-connected devices are becoming albatross around the necks of individuals and organizations with malware authors routinely hacking them to form botnets that can be further used as weapons in DDoS and other cyber attacks. But now finding malicious servers, hosted ...

OSPF is not advertising SDWAN routes to connected Router

OSPF configured on SDWAN 1K. OSPF is up between the MCN and next hop router. All of the virtual paths are up, but the MCN not advertising SDWAN routes into OSPF...

Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench DLL Load Local Code Execution Vulnerability

Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench is an HMI editor and component-level industrial product for designing and configuring applications and performing microcontroller turns. A local arbitrary code execution vulnerability exists in Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench...

Arbitrary Code Execution Via Bypassing Permission Check

distfork is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via bypassing permission check. The bypass is possible because it only performs basic permission overall/read checks and allows anyone with that permission to execute arbitrary shell commands on all connected nodes...

Somebody is watching you: IP camera, TV and Emma Watson’s smartphone

Today I want to talk today about privacy in a most natural sense. You probably have an internet-connected device with camera an microphone: smartphone, tablet, smart TV, ip camera, baby monitor, etc. - Can it be used to record video/audio and spy on you? - Of course, yes! - Only government and...

Citrix Director Displays "In Supplemental Grace Period Time until grace expires"

Citrix Director shows License server issues as follows: License server state: OK Grace state: In Supplemental Grace Period Time until grace expires: 6 days 4 hours License server status is "Not Connected". Studio is able to connect to the license server, there are enough licenses and license serv...

Children's Voice Messages Leaked in CloudPets Database Breach

More than two million voice messages, many of them from children, along with the personal information of more than 800,000 registered users was swiped from an exposed MongoDB instance storing data collected from a internet-connected toy called CloudPets. These IP-enabled teddy bears allow childre...

Internet-Connected Teddy Bear Leaks Millions Of Voice Messages and Password

Every parent should think twice before handing out Internet-connected toys or smart toys to their children, as these creepy toys pose a different sort of danger: privacy and data security risks for kids who play with them. This same incident was happened over a year ago when Hong Kong toymaker...

Windows Botnet Spreading Mirai Variant

A Chinese-speaking attacker is spreading a Mirai variant from a repurposed Windows-based botnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab published a report today, and said the code was written by an experienced developer who also built in the capability to spread the IoT malware to Linux machines under...