National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. Building resilience in critical infrastructure is crucial to national security. The essential infrastructure systems that support our daily lives—such as electricity, financial...

The Danger and Opportunity in 5G Connectivity and IoT

There is a lot of buzz building over fifth-generation mobile networks 5G and how they will revolutionize the fast-growing numbers of internet-connected devices — but what about security? What makes 5G so closely tied to billions of Internet of Things IoT devices is its speed 5G is expected to be ...

Safeguarding the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

In May of 1998, President Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 63: Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructures. This Directive proposed steps to enact the recommendations of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, published in October 1997. Twenty years on, h...

AWS FreeRTOS Bugs Allow Compromise of IoT Devices

Researchers have found that a popular Internet of Things real-time operating system – FreeRTOS – is riddled with serious vulnerabilities. The bugs could allow hackers to crash connected devices in smart homes or critical infrastructure systems, leak information from the devices’ memory, and take...

GreyEnergy Spy APT Mounts Sophisticated Effort Against Critical Infrastructure

A new APT group, dubbed GreyEnergy by researchers, has emerged as a successor to the infamous BlackEnergy APT group, which was behind the electric grid cyberattack and resulting power outage in the Ukraine in December 2015. However, GreyEnergy’s focus and targeting revolve around cyber-espionage...

CVE-2018-15402

A vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of Origin headers on HTTP requests within the management interface. An attacker...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

A vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of Origin headers on HTTP requests within the management interface. An attacker...

CVE-2018-15402

A vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of Origin headers on HTTP requests within the management interface. An attacker...

CVE-2018-15402 Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of Origin headers on HTTP requests within the management interface. An attacker...

CVE-2018-15402 Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of Origin headers on HTTP requests within the management interface. An attacker...

CVE-2018-3295

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...

CVE-2018-3297

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...

CVE-2018-3291

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...

CVE-2018-3287

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...

CVE-2018-3290

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...

CVE-2018-3264

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite subcomponent: Kernel. The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successf...

CVE-2018-3174

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Client programs. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.61 and prior, 5.6.41 and prior, 5.7.23 and prior and 8.0.12 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the...

CVE-2018-3289

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...

CVE-2018-3288

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.2.20. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to...