Medical Study Blasts Hospitals' Security Practices

A scathing rebuke of medical professionals’ attitudes toward information security reveals nurses and doctors fumble over protocols often putting patients at risk. The revealing study, “Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare Organizations PDF,” offers a fascinating look behind the privacy...

Advantech Patches WebAccess Remote Code Execution Flaws

Advantech has published a new version of its WebAccess product to address vulnerabilities that put installations at risk to remote code execution attacks. Exploiting the vulnerabilities would be a challenge, however, according to an advisory published Tuesday by the Industrial Control Systems Cyb...

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-03960)

The Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller provides centralized access to all group structure information, optimizes applications, and supports application configuration. Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller APIC devices prior to software version 1.32f, the installation...

Connected Cars: The Open Road for Hackers

As vehicles become both increasingly complex and better connected to the Internet, their newfound versatility may be manipulated for malicious purposes. Three of the most concerning potential threats looking ahead to the next few years are those posed by manipulating vehicle operation, ransomware...

CVE-2016-1420

The installation component on Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller APIC devices with software before 1.32f mishandles binary files, which allows local users to obtain root access via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCuz72347...

Code injection

The up.time agent in Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor 7.5 and 7.6 on Linux allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-8268

The up.time agent in Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor 7.5 and 7.6 on Linux allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-8268

CVE-2015-8268 affects the Idera Up.time Infrastructure Monitor Linux agent (versions 7.5 and 7.6). The vulnerability allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files accessible to the uptime.agent, via unspecified vectors. This information disclosure can enable an attacker to acce...

CVE-2015-8268

The up.time agent in Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor 7.5 and 7.6 on Linux allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors...

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Binary Files Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the installation procedure for Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller APIC devices could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain root-level privileges. The vulnerability is due to the use of incorrect installation and permissions settings for binary files...

Mitsubishi Hybrid SUV Hack Puts Drivers At Risk, Says Researcher

Security experts are warning owners of Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles that their cars can be hacked via the automobile’s on-board WiFi network used for remote control of key car features. The hybrid electronic vehicle, which is slated to be sold here in the U.S. starting th...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in HPE Matrix Operating Environment

HPE Matrix Operating Environment is a suite of cloud management software designed for infrastructure services. HPE Matrix Operating Environment has multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, execute arbitrary code, gain...

Multiple vulnerabilities in HPE Matrix Operating Environment and Systems Insight Manager (CNVD-2016-03740)

HPE Matrix Operating Environment is a set of cloud management software designed for infrastructure services.HPE Systems Insight Manager is a set of management software for HP servers and storage devices, which provides multi-system management, fault management and event handling, and rights...

CVE-2016-1406

The API web interface in Cisco Prime Infrastructure before 3.1 and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager before 1.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended RBAC restrictions and obtain sensitive information, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted JSON data, aka Bug ID...

CVE-2016-1406

The API web interface in Cisco Prime Infrastructure before 3.1 and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager before 1.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended RBAC restrictions and obtain sensitive information, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted JSON data, aka Bug ID...

Design/Logic Flaw

The API web interface in Cisco Prime Infrastructure before 3.1 and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager before 1.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended RBAC restrictions and obtain sensitive information, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted JSON data, aka Bug ID...

CVE-2016-1406

The API web interface in Cisco Prime Infrastructure before 3.1 and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager before 1.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended RBAC restrictions and obtain sensitive information, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted JSON data, aka Bug ID...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager Privilege Gain Vulnerability

Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager EPNM are both products of the U.S. Cisco Cisco.PI is a set of solutions for wireless management through Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution LMS and Cisco Prime Network Control System NCS technologies; EPNM is a network...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager JSON Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the application programming interface API web interface of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform privilege escalation on the affected device. The attacker can escalate privileges to...

Protecting Cloud APIs Critical to Mitigating Total Compromise

When it comes to cloud computing, APIs more or less drive everything, but in the eyes of some researchers, existing security controls around them haven’t kept pace. While individual components of a system can be secure, when that system gets deployed in the cloud it can often become insecure – an...