Multiple flaws found in smart syringe pump

A syringe pump is a small infusion pump that delivers liquids, either medication or nutrients, in small quantities into the patient's system. Hospitals, nursing homes, and homes with residents under acute or palliative care use them. Accurate and safe delivery of dosage from a variety of syringes...

Connected Medicine and Its Diagnosis

Medical data is slowly but surely migrating from paper mediums to the digital infrastructure of medical institutions. Today, the data is "scattered" across databases, portals, medical equipment, etc. In some cases, the security of the network infrastructure of such organizations is neglected, and...

Security Flaw in Estonian National ID Card

We have no idea how bad this really is: On 30 August, an international team of researchers informed the Estonian Information System Authority RIA of a vulnerability potentially affecting the digital use of Estonian ID cards. The possible vulnerability affects a total of almost 750,000 ID-cards...

Smart Devices Can Be Hijacked to Track Your Body Movements And Activities Remotely

If your smartphones, tablets, smart refrigerators, smart TVs and other smart devices are smart enough to make your life easier, their smart behavior could also be leveraged by hackers to steal data, invade your privacy or spy on you, if not secured properly. One such experiment has recently been...

Hacking a Gene Sequencer by Encoding Malware in a DNA Strand

One of the common ways to hack a computer is to mess with its input data. That is, if you can feed the computer data that it interprets -- or misinterprets -- in a particular way, you can trick the computer into doing things that it wasn't intended to do. This is basically what a buffer overflow...

Amazon Macie and Deep Security

Amazon S3 stores trillions of objects and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second. By any metric, it’s massive. With unparalleled durability and availability, it’s the backbone of AWS’ data services. This morning at the AWS Summit in New York City, AWS launched a new service: Amazon...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Hospitality Suite8 component of Oracle Hospitality Applications subcomponent: WebConnect. The supported version that is affected is 8.10.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Hospitality Suite8 executes to...

CVE-2017-10176

CVE-2017-10176 affects Oracle Java SE/SE Embedded/JRockit (OpenJDK/OpenJDK components) with affected releases including Java SE 7u141 and 8u131, SE Embedded 8u131, JRockit R28.3.14. The vulnerability enables an unauthenticated network attacker to access or take data via multiple protocols and can...

Oracle Hospitality Cruise Fleet Management Remote Vulnerability

Oracle Hospitality Applications is a suite of business applications, servers, and storage solutions for hospitality management from Oracle Corporation. Oracle Hospitality Cruise Fleet Management is one of the fleet management components of Oracle Hospitality Cruise Fleet Management, which provide...

Advantech SUSIAccess <= 3.0 - RecoveryMgmt File Upload Exploit

Exploit for jsp platform in category web applications ! /usr/bin/env ruby =begin Exploit Title: Advantech SUSIAccess RecoveryMgmt File Upload Date: 07/31/17 Exploit Author: james fitts Vendor Homepage: http://www.advantech.com/ Version: Advantech SUSIAccess = 3.0 Tested on: Windows 7 SP1 Relavant...

Hardcoded credentials

MEDHOST Document Management System contains hard-coded credentials that are used for Apache Solr access. An attacker with knowledge of the hard-coded credentials and the ability to communicate directly with Apache Solr may be able to obtain or modify sensitive patient and financial information. T...

RBB SPEED TEST App fails to verify SSL server certificates

IID RBB SPEED TEST App for Android and IID RBB SPEED TEST App for iOS are both products of IID Japan.IID RBB SPEED TEST App for Android is a data traffic measurement application based on Android platform. The program is able to measure the average throughput of data exchanges with a server within...

Common Sense Clarity on GDPR

Having recently returned from the first phase of Carbon Black’s official General Data Protection Regulation GDPR Data Security and Privacy tour, where I participated in the data privacy and security enablement of numerous European global businesses, I’ve collected many valuable insights on the...

InsightVM now available in Japan

InsightVM customers can now choose to store their InsightVM data in Japan. At Rapid7, we enable customers to comply with policies and preferences by selecting the region where their data is transmitted, processed, and stored. We're excited to announce that Japan joins our existing data centers in...

Third Party Exposes 14 Million Verizon Customer Records

As many as 14 million U.S.-based Verizon customers have had their data exposed by a partner of the telecommunications giant, which misconfigured a repository storing the personal information it had access to. UpGuard director of cyber risk research Chris Vickery, who has made a living of finding...

Over 14 Million Verizon Customers' Data Exposed On Unprotected AWS Server

Verizon, the major telecommunications provider, has suffered a data security breach with over 14 million US customers' personal details exposed on the Internet after NICE Systems, a third-party vendor, mistakenly left the sensitive users’ details open on a server. Chris Vickery, researcher and...

DNI Wants Research into Secure Multiparty Computation

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA is soliciting proposals for research projects in secure multiparty computation: Specifically of interest is computing on data belonging to different -- potentially mutually distrusting -- parties, which are unwilling or unable e.g., due t...

Challenges of Insider Threat Detection – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

Insider threat detection and containment of insider threats requires an expert understanding of both users and how they use and access enterprise data. In our first Whiteboard Wednesday, Drew Schuil, Vice President of Global Product Strategy at Imperva, talks about the challenges of insider threa...

CVE-2017-2295

Versions of Puppet prior to 4.10.1 will deserialize data off the wire from the agent to the server, in this case with a attacker-specified format. This could be used to force YAML deserialization in an unsafe manner, which would lead to remote code execution. This change constrains the format of...

CVE-2017-10803

Vulnerability summary: CVE-2017-10803 affects Odoo 8.0, Odoo Community Edition 9.0/10.0, and Odoo Enterprise Edition 9.0/10.0. The issue resides in the Database Anonymization module, where insecure handling of anonymization data uses Python’s pickle/unpickle, enabling arbitrary Python code execut...