How businesses are gaining integrated data protection with Microsoft Purview

Currently, our interconnected world is creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.1 Every purchase made, every email sent, every contract signed: all of it gets shared, accessed, and stored. We take it on faith that organizations are doing all this safely; however, data loss is becoming a...

The Bug Report – August 2022 Edition

The Bug Report — August 2022 Edition By Philippe Laulheret · September 7, 2022 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Figure 0: CVE-2022-38392 redefines “destructive interference” Why am I here? Indeed, why are we here? School is back in session, there’s a chill in the air that says fall is around the...

Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Can Crash Old Hard Drives

Plus: The Twilio hack snags a reporter, a new tool to check for spyware, and the Canadian weed pipeline gets hit by a cyberattack...

CVE-2022-38392

Certain 5400 RPM hard drives, for laptops and other PCs in approximately 2005 and later, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service device malfunction and system crash via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video. A reported produ...

CVE-2022-38392

Certain 5400 RPM hard drives, for laptops and other PCs in approximately 2005 and later, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service device malfunction and system crash via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video. A reported produ...

Hardcoded credentials

Certain 5400 RPM hard drives, for laptops and other PCs in approximately 2005 and later, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service device malfunction and system crash via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video. A reported produ...

PT-2022-24404

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Hard drives affected versions not specified Description Certain 5400 RPM hard drives, commonly found in laptops and PCs manufactured around 2005 and later, are susceptible to a denial-of-service condition. This occurs due to a resonant-frequen...

CVE-2022-38392

Certain 5400 RPM hard drives, for laptops and other PCs in approximately 2005 and later, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service device malfunction and system crash via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video. A reported produ...

The vulnerability of microprogrammed solid-state storage devices from Intel(R) Optane, Intel(R) Optane(TM) DC, and Intel(R) DC, related to the simultaneous execution using a shared resource with incorrect synchronization, allows attackers to cause service failures.

The vulnerability of microprogrammed solid-state storage devices from IntelR Optane, IntelR OptaneTM DC, and IntelR DC involves the simultaneous execution of operations using shared resources with improper synchronization. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to cause service failure...

CVE-2022-28386

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. The security feature for lockout e.g., requiring a reformat of the drive after 20 failed unlock attempts does not work as specified. More than 20 attempts may be made. This affects Keypad Secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 Drive Part Number...

CVE-2022-28386

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. The security feature for lockout e.g., requiring a reformat of the drive after 20 failed unlock attempts does not work as specified. More than 20 attempts may be made. This affects Keypad Secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 Drive Part Number...

CVE-2022-28386

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. The security feature for lockout e.g., requiring a reformat of the drive after 20 failed unlock attempts does not work as specified. More than 20 attempts may be made. This affects Keypad Secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 Drive Part Number...

Security feature bypass

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. The security feature for lockout e.g., requiring a reformat of the drive after 20 failed unlock attempts does not work as specified. More than 20 attempts may be made. This affects Keypad Secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 Drive Part Number...

CVE-2022-28384

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. Due to an insecure design, they allow an offline brute-force attack for determining the correct passcode, and thus gaining unauthorized access to the stored encrypted data. This affects Keypad Secure USB 3.2 Gen 1 Drive Part...

CVE-2022-28383

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. Due to insufficient firmware validation, an attacker can store malicious firmware code for the USB-to-SATA bridge controller on the USB drive e.g., by leveraging physical access during the supply chain. This code is then...

CVE-2022-28385

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. Due to missing integrity checks, an attacker can manipulate the content of the emulated CD-ROM drive containing the Windows and macOS client software. The content of this emulated CD-ROM drive is stored as an ISO-9660 image in...

CVE-2022-28385

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. Due to missing integrity checks, an attacker can manipulate the content of the emulated CD-ROM drive containing the Windows and macOS client software. The content of this emulated CD-ROM drive is stored as an ISO-9660 image in...

CVE-2022-28383

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. Due to insufficient firmware validation, an attacker can store malicious firmware code for the USB-to-SATA bridge controller on the USB drive e.g., by leveraging physical access during the supply chain. This code is then...

CVE-2022-28385

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. Due to missing integrity checks, an attacker can manipulate the content of the emulated CD-ROM drive containing the Windows and macOS client software. The content of this emulated CD-ROM drive is stored as an ISO-9660 image in...

CVE-2022-28387

An issue was discovered in certain Verbatim drives through 2022-03-31. Due to an insecure design, they can be unlocked by an attacker who can then gain unauthorized access to the stored data. The attacker can simply use an undocumented IOCTL command that retrieves the correct password. This affec...