China Accuses NSA's TAO Unit of Hacking its Military Research University

China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency NSA of conducting a string of cyberattacks aimed at aeronautical and military research-oriented Northwestern Polytechnical University in the city of Xi'an in June 2022. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre NCVERC disclosed its...

CVE-2022-22067

Potential memory leak in modem during the processing of NSA RRC Reconfiguration with invalid Radio Bearer Config in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Mobile...

CVE-2022-22067

CVE-2022-22067 affects Qualcomm Snapdragon modems (Auto/Compute/Connectivity/Mobile). The issue is a memory leak during NSA RRC Reconfiguration with an invalid Radio Bearer Config, rooted in the modem component. Documented impact includes high confidentiality, integrity, and availability concerns...

CISA, NSA, and ODNI Release Part One of Guidance on Securing the Software Supply Chain

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ODNI, have published part one of a three-part joint publication series, Securing Software Supply Chain Series - Recommended Practices for Developers. This guidance—created by the Enduring Security...

Levels of Assurance for DoD Microelectronics

The NSA has has published criteria for evaluating levels of assurance required for DoD microelectronics. The introductory report in a DoD microelectronics series outlines the process for determining levels of hardware assurance for systems and custom microelectronic components, which include...

nsa.edu.pe Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2672081

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

On the Subversion of NIST by the NSA

Nadiya Kostyuk and Susan Landau wrote an interesting paper: "Dueling Over DUALECDRBG: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process": Abstract: In recent decades, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, which develops cryptographic standards for...

People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and Devices

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA to provide information on ways in which People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored cyber actors continue to exploit publicly known vulnerabilities in order to...

Attacks on Managed Service Providers Expected to Increase

CISA, NSA, FBI, and similar organizations in the other Five Eyes countries are warning that attacks on MSPs--as a vector to their customers--are likely to increase. No details about what this prediction is based on. Makes sense, though. The SolarWinds attack was incredibly successful for the...

The NSA Says that There are No Known Flaws in NIST’s Quantum-Resistant Algorithms

Rob Joyce, the director of cybersecurity at the NSA, said so in an interview: The NSA already has classified quantum-resistant algorithms of its own that it developed over many years, said Joyce. But it didnt enter any of its own in the contest. The agencys mathematicians, however, worked with NI...

The NSA Swears It Has ‘No Backdoors’ in Next-Gen Encryption

Plus: New details of ICE’s dragnet surveillance in the US, Clearview AI agrees to limit sales of its faceprint database, and more...

Protecting Against Cyber Threats to Managed Service Providers and their Customers

Summary Tactical actions for MSPs and their customers to take today: • Identify and disable accounts that are no longer in use. • Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. • Ensure MSP-customer contracts transparently...

The top 5 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory, coauthored by cybersecurity authorities of the United States CISA, NSA, and FBI, Australia ACSC, Canada CCCS, New Zealand NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom NCSC-UK has detailed the top 15 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs routinely exploited by malicious cybe...

Vulnerabilities fixed in SonicOS

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in SonicOS. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service or to gain access to system data. SonicWall has issued updates to fix the vulnerabilities in SonicOS. For more information, see below:...

2021 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS, the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK have...

Cisco Releases Security Patches for TelePresence, RoomOS and Umbrella VA

Networking equipment maker Cisco has released security updates to address three high-severity vulnerabilities in its products that could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service DoS condition and take control of affected systems. The first of the three flaws, CVE-2022-20783 CVSS score: 7.5,...

InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The National Security Agency NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide, which was originally published in August 2021. With the help and feedback received from numerous partners in the cybersecurity community, this guide...

Feds: APTs Have Tools That Can Take Over Critical Infrastructure

Threat actors have built and are ready to deploy tools that can take over a number of widely used industrial control system ICS devices, which spells trouble for critical infrastructure providers—particularly those in the energy sector, federal agencies have warned. In a joint advisory, the...

Industrial Control System Malware Discovered

The Department of Energy, CISA, the FBI, and the NSA jointly issued an advisory describing a sophisticated piece of malware called Pipedream thats designed to attack a wide range of industrial control systems. This is clearly from a government, but no attribution is given. Theres also no indicati...

Microsoft Issues Patches for 2 Windows Zero-Days and 126 Other Vulnerabilities

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates for the month of April have addressed a total of 128 security vulnerabilities spanning across its software product portfolio, including Windows, Defender, Office, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, and Print Spooler, among others. 10 of the 128 bugs fixed are rated...