April 911 Outage Impacted 3.5 Percent of U.S. Population

In the early hours of April 10, a series of errors led to a massive, multi-state outage in the emergency call management centers ECMCs that handle 911 calls in seven geographically dispersed states. The incident originated at an obscure but critical call routing hub in Englewood, Colo., and ended...

Cloud application security: preventing security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Currently, cloud-based applications are widely used, and with amazing speed growing. Since cloud-based applications can be accessed through the Internet, and anyone, anywhere can access – therefore, application security becomes particularly important. This is why the creation and management of...

Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks RPL of Cisco IOS XE could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to inject routes into the autonomic control plane ACP. The vulnerability is due to RPL being active on ACP as well as the external Autonomic Networki...

Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in certificate validation for Autonomic Networking Infrastructure ANI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to masquerade as another device. The vulnerability is due to incomplete certificate validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabili...

Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure Certificate Chain Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in certificate validation for Autonomic Network Infrastructure ANI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to provide an invalid message and have the ANI device accept it. The vulnerability is due to incomplete certificate validation. An attacker...

CVE-2014-3405

Cisco IOS XE enables the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks aka RPL on both the Autonomic Control Plane ACP and external Autonomic Networking Infrastructure ANI interfaces, which allows remote attackers to conduct route-injection attacks via crafted RPL advertisements on an AN...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Autonomic Networking Infrastructure ANI component in Cisco IOS XE does not properly validate certificates, which allows remote attackers to spoof devices via crafted messages, aka Bug ID CSCuq22647...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Autonomic Networking Infrastructure ANI component in Cisco IOS XE does not properly validate certificates, which allows remote attackers to trigger acceptance of an invalid message via crafted messages, aka Bug ID CSCuq22677...

CVE-2014-3403

The CVE-2014-3403 issue affects Cisco IOS XE Autonomic Networking Infrastructure (ANI). The vulnerability arises from incomplete certificate validation in ANI, enabling a remote attacker to spoof devices by sending crafted messages. The Cisco security advisory describes this as a certificate-vali...

CVE-2014-3405

Cisco IOS XE enables the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks aka RPL on both the Autonomic Control Plane ACP and external Autonomic Networking Infrastructure ANI interfaces, which allows remote attackers to conduct route-injection attacks via crafted RPL advertisements on an AN...

CVE-2014-3404

Cisco IOS XE's Autonomic Networking Infrastructure (ANI) has a certificate validation vulnerability (CVE-2014-3404) due to incomplete certificate validation in the ANI component. A remote attacker could send crafted messages to the ANI device and cause acceptance of an invalid message. The Cisco ...

Remotely Exploitable 'Bash Shell' Vulnerability Affects Linux, Unix and Apple Mac OS X

A Critical remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Linux and Unix command-line shell, known as Bash, aka the GNU Bourne Again Shell, leaving countless websites, servers, PCs, OS X Macs, various home routers, and many more open to the cyber criminals. Earlier toda...

NSA Director Urges Cyber-Resilience at Billington Summit

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, NSA Director and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers, explained that the Defense Department and corporate information security teams must focus on cyber-resiliency rather than total network...

Verizon to Bolster Authentication with QR Codes

If you want to know what the future holds for authentication on the web, it all depends whom you ask. Some say it’ll come in the form of biometrics – iris and fingerprint scans, etc. Others say the answer lies in a tangle of constantly changing two-factor verification codes users need to punch in...

[USN-2325-1] OpenStack Nova vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2325-1 August 21, 2014 nova vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubunt...

Hacking Traffic Lights is Amazingly Really Easy

Hacking Internet of Things IoTs have become an amazing practice for cyber criminals out there, but messing with Traffic lights would be something more crazy for them. The hacking scenes in hollywood movies has just been a source of entertainment for the technology industry, like we've seen traffi...

U.S. Nuclear Regulator Hacked Three Times in Three Years

Hackers hit the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC three separate times during the past three years, duping employees of the agency into spreading malware and clicking through phishing links intended to harvest log-in credentials. A NextGov report on Monday said hackers in an unnamed foreign...

Epic Operation Kicks Off Multistage Turla APT Campaign

The Turla APT campaign has baffled researchers for months as to how its victims are compromised. Peaking during the first two months of the year, Turla has targeted municipal governments, embassies, militaries and other high-value targets worldwide, with particular concentrations in the Middle Ea...

Storage vMotion of Instant Recovery fails with “The method is disabled by ‘’”

Challenge When attempting to migrate an Instant Recovery VM to a production datastore using VMware Storage vMotion, the following error occurs: The method is disabled by 'vm-' Call 'VirtualMachine.Relocate' for object 'vmname' on vCenter Server 'vCenterName' failed. Solution To correct this issue...

Canada NRC Hit by Apparent Chinese Cyber Attack

One of Canada’s premier research and technology organizations was hit with a cyber-attack recently that forced the cooperative offline; the attack – which appears to be Chinese in origin – was so serious the organization is being forced to rebuild its entire system. The National Research Council ...