How One Engineer Upskilled Into a Salesforce Engineering Role at Rapid7

At Rapid7, we believe the growth and development of our people enables us to better serve customers who depend on us. When our Engineering team was searching for candidates to help with our Salesforce ecosystem, John Millar demonstrated many of our core values – most importantly, the appetite to...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Airspan AirSpot 5410 version 0.3.4.1-4 and under there exists a Hidden system command web page. After performing a reverse engineering of the firmware, it was discovered that a hidden page not listed in the administration management interface allows a user to execute Linux commands on the devi...

Meta Cracks Down on Cyber Espionage Operations in South Asia Abusing Facebook

Facebook parent company Meta disclosed that it took action against two espionage operations in South Asia that leveraged its social media platforms to distribute malware to potential targets. The first set of activities is what the company described as "persistent and well-resourced" and undertak...

Phishy calls and emails play on energy cost increase fears

Gas and electricity price concerns are rife at the moment, with spiralling costs and bigger increases waiting down the line. Sadly this makes the subject valuable material for fraudsters, playing into peoples fears with a dash of social engineering to make them worse off than they were previously...

Phishy calls and emails play on energy cost increase fears

Gas and electricity price concerns are rife at the moment, with spiralling costs and bigger increases waiting down the line. Sadly this makes the subject valuable material for fraudsters, playing into people's fears with a dash of social engineering to make them worse off than they were previousl...

A Wide Reduction Trick

In line with the original spirit of Cryptography Dispatches, this is a quick1 issue to talk about a neat bit of cryptography engineering I encountered. The structure of an ECC implementation Elliptic curve cryptography implementations all roughly share the following structure: theres a base field...

VirusTotal Reveals Most Impersonated Software in Malware Attacks

Threat actors are increasingly mimicking legitimate applications like Skype, Adobe Reader, and VLC Player as a means to abuse trust relationships and increase the likelihood of a successful social engineering attack. Other most impersonated legitimate apps by icon include 7-Zip, TeamViewer,...

CISA and ACSC Release Top 2021 Malware Strains

CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC have published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory on the top malware strains observed in 2021. Malicious cyber actors often use malware to covertly compromise and then gain access to a computer or mobile device. As malicious cyber actors have been...

software development tools Recovery Mode Code Execution

The vulnerability of the recovery mode implementation in the software development tools for engineering applications, such as Drawings SDK, JT, JT2Go, and Teamcenter Visualization’s product lifecycle management system, is related to reading data beyond the buffer in memory during the processing o...

software development tools Recovery Mode Code Execution

The vulnerability of the recovery mode implementation in the software development tools for engineering applications, such as Drawings SDK, JT, JT2Go, and the Teamcenter Visualization lifecycle management system, is related to reading beyond the buffer in memory during the processing of DWG files...

software development tools Recovery Mode Code Execution

The vulnerability of the recovery mode implementation in the software development tools for engineering applications, such as Drawings SDK, JT, JT2Go, and Teamcenter Visualization’s product lifecycle management system, is related to reading data beyond the buffer in memory during the processing o...

Researchers Warns of Increase in Phishing Attacks Using Decentralized IPFS Network

The decentralized file system solution known as IPFS is becoming the new "hotbed" for hosting phishing sites, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity firm Trustwave SpiderLabs, which disclosed specifics of the spam campaigns, said it identified no less than 3,000 emails containing IPFS phishing UR...

Authentication flaw

Saia Burgess Controls SBC PCD through 2022-05-06 uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. According to FSCT-2022-0063, there is a Saia Burgess Controls SBC PCD S-Bus weak credential hashing scheme issue. The affected components are characterized as: S-Bus 5050/UDP authentication. The...

CVE-2022-30319

Saia Burgess Controls SBC PCD through 2022-05-06 allows Authentication bypass. According to FSCT-2022-0062, there is a Saia Burgess Controls SBC PCD S-Bus authentication bypass issue. The affected components are characterized as: S-Bus 5050/UDP authentication. The potential impact is:...

CVE-2022-30320

The CVE-2022-30320 entry concerns Saia Burgess Controls (SBC) PCD and its S-Bus authentication over UDP (5050). The root cause is use of a CRC-16 based hash for password verification in the S-Bus write-byte authentication, which is not cryptographically secure. Reported impact is authentication b...

CVE-2022-30320

Saia Burgess Controls SBC PCD through 2022-05-06 uses a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. According to FSCT-2022-0063, there is a Saia Burgess Controls SBC PCD S-Bus weak credential hashing scheme issue. The affected components are characterized as: S-Bus 5050/UDP authentication. The...

CVE-2022-30316

Honeywell Experion PKS Safety Manager 5.02 has Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. According to FSCT-2022-0054, there is a Honeywell Experion PKS Safety Manager unauthenticated firmware update issue. The affected components are characterized as: Firmware update functionality. The...

Security Bulletin: Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability in IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody (Rhapsody)

Summary IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody Rhapsody components, Knowledge Center and Test Conductor are impacted by the Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228. Customers are encouraged to take quick action to apply fix. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-44228 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j...

Security Bulletin: The IBM® SDK Java Technology Edition, October 2021 CPU affect multiple IBM Continuous Engineering products based on IBM Jazz Technology

Summary There are multiple security vulnerabilities that are addressed in the IBM® SDK Java Technology Edition, October 2021 CPU. The following products: IBM Jazz Team Server affecting the following IBM Jazz Team Server based Applications: Collaborative Lifecycle Management CLM, Engineering...

Security Bulletin: A Remote Attack Vulnerability in Apache Log4j affects IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing

Summary There is a Vulnerability in Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 which is used by "IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing PUB" and "Rational Publishing Engine RPE." Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-44228 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary...