CVE-2024-53980

RIOT OS vulnerability affecting CC2538 radio reception. A malicious actor can send a IEEE 802.15.4 packet with a spoofed length byte (and optionally spoofed FCS), causing the receiver to enter an endless loop. The root cause is the CRC position check: before PR #20998 the code used the full 8 bit...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2024:2941-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2941-1 advisory. - Intel CPU Microcode was updated to the 20240813 release bsc1229129 - CVE-2024-24853: Security updates for INTEL- SA-01083 -...

Fake Smart Factory Honeypot Highlights New Attack Threats

A honeypot set up to observe the current security landscape in smart manufacturing systems observed numerous threats—including cryptomining malware and ransomware—in just a few months, highlighting the new threats that industrial control systems ICS face with increased exposure to the internet...

Finding a Better Route to Router and Home Network Security

When was the last time you looked at your home router? We tend to only notice these magical boxes when something goes wrong. And given that many of us get our router as part of a single broadband box technically known as a gateway, combining modem and router in one device, there’s even less...

Goodbye Passwords: Hello Identity Management

Keeping track of user names and passwords sounds easy, but it is not. In a world where protected network resources are accessed by employees on mobile devices, outside contractors, web applications and internet of things IoT devices – passwords just don’t cut it anymore. The stakes are high:...

British Intelligence is Legally Allowed to Hack Anyone, Court Says

Hacking of computers, smartphones and networks in the United Kingdom or abroad by the Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ is LEGAL, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal IPT ruled. So, the UK is giving clean chit to its intelligence agency to spy on its people as well as people living...