Super Micro Says Its Gear Wasn't Bugged By Chinese Spies

U.S.-based computing vendor Super Micro has issued the findings of an investigation that it says proves that its hardware was not bugged by the Chinese government. Super Micro, which specializes in green computing for data centers and cloud computing, enterprise IT, big data, high performance...

Supply Chain Security: Managing a Complex Risk Profile

NYC — From Delta Airlines to Best Buy, a number of big-name companies were involved this year in data breaches – but even though their names made headlines, the actual security incidents occurred due to flaws in third-party partners. Across the board, companies are scratching their heads trying t...

Framework for Rogue Wi-Fi Access Point Attack: WiFi-Pumpkin

The WiFi-Pumpkin is a rogue AP framework to easily create these fake networks, all while forwarding legitimate traffic to and from the unsuspecting target. It comes stuffed with features, including rogue Wi-Fi access points, deauth attacks on client APs, a probe request and credentials monitor,...

Intel® QuickAssist Technology for Linux Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in Intel® QuickAssist Technology for Linux may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing documentation and software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2018-12206 Description: Improper configuration o...

Xen Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor developed by the Xen Project. A Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists in Xen 4.11, which stems from a failure to properly handle x86 IOREQ server resource accounting for use with external emulators and can be exploited by a...

Tcpreplay - Pcap Editing And Replay Tools For *NIX And Windows

Tcpreplay is a suite of GPLv3 licensed utilities for UNIX and Win32 under Cygwin operating systems for editing and replaying network traffic which was previously captured by tools like tcpdump and Ethereal/Wireshark. It allows you to classify traffic as client or server, rewrite Layer 2, 3 and 4...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19967

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on Intel x86 platforms allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS hang because Xen does not work around Intel's mishandling of certain HLE transactions associated with the KACQUIRE instruction prefix...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-19967

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on Intel x86 platforms allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS hang because Xen does not work around Intel's mishandling of certain HLE transactions associated with the KACQUIRE instruction prefix...

Banks Attacked through Malicious Hardware Connected to the Local Network

Kaspersky is reporting on a series of bank hacks -- called DarkVishnya -- perpetrated through malicious hardware being surreptitiously installed into the target network: In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to research a series of cybertheft incidents. Each attack had a common...

KoffeyMaker: notebook vs. ATM

Despite CCTV and the risk of being caught by security staff, attacks on ATMs using a direct connection — so-called black box attacks — are still popular with cybercriminals. The main reason is the low "entry requirements" for would-be cyber-robbers: specialized sites offer both the necessary tool...

USN-3836-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3836-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel mishandles mapping UID or GID ranges inside...

USN-3836-2 linux-hwe, linux-gcp vulnerabilities

USN-3836-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel mishandles mapping UID or GID ranges inside...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3836-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:3835-1 Security update for chromium

This update contains Chromium 70.0.3538.102 and fixes security issues and bugs. Vulnerabilities fixed in 70.0.3538.102: - CVE-2018-17478: Out of bounds memory access in V8 boo1115537 Vulnerabilities fixed in 70.0.3538.67 bsc1112111: - CVE-2018-17462: Sandbox escape in AppCache - CVE-2018-17463:...

insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs

ISSUE DESCRIPTION In order to be certain that no undue access to memory is possible anymore after IOMMU mappings of this memory have been removed, Translation Lookaside Buffers TLBs need to be flushed after most changes to such mappings. Xen bypassed certain IOMMU flushes on AMD x86 hardware...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Threat Predictions for 2019

Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019 Threat predictions for industrial security in 2019 Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2019: overview and predictions There's nothing more difficult than predicting. So, instead of gazing into a crystal ball, the idea here is to make educated guesses...

PT-2018-10958 · Samsung +1 · Samsung T5 +6

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Samsung 840 EVO versions affected versions not specified Samsung 850 EVO versions affected versions not specified Samsung T3 versions affected versions not specified Samsung T5 versions affected versions not specified Crucial MX100 versions...

Siemens SIMATIC HMI Device Detection Consolidation

Consolidation of Siemens SIMATIC HMI device detections. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description...

TP-Link Archer C50 Wireless Router 171227 - CSRF (Configuration File Disclosure) Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Exploit Title: TP-Link Archer C50 Wireless Router 171227 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Configuration File Disclosure Exploit Author: Wadeek Vendor Homepage: https://www.tp-link.com/ Hardware Version: Archer C50 v3 00000001 Firmware Link:...

Apple Modernizes Its Hardware Security with T2

When Apple launched its latest MacBook Air last month, one of its more unusual features is that the built-in microphone automatically turns off when the lid is closed. Apple introduced the feature to eliminate any possibility of malware – or other unwanted applications – using the laptop’s...