Intel Confirms Its Much-Loathed ME Feature Has A Kill Switch

Researchers at Positive Technologies forced Intel’s hand at revealing that a previously undocumented kill switch exists for its oft-criticized Intel Management Engine, a remote management component of Intel CPUs. Initially, Positive Technologies set out to disable the feature that some security...

Hidden Kill Switch Identified in Controversial Intel ME controller chip

By Uzair Amir Europe’s leading cyber-security firm Positive Technologies’ security researchers have a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hidden Kill Switch Identified in Controversial Intel ME controller chip...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

PT-2018-02: Improper Authorization in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Improper Authorization vulnerability in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH. An Improper Authorization issue in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH products allows remote unauthenticated attackers to bypass web-service authentication and obtain...

PT-2018-01: Information Exposure in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Information Exposure vulnerability in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH. An Information Exposure issue in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH products allows remote unauthenticated attackers to read diagnostic information using Monitor Mode on the...

PT-2017-56: Cross-Site Scripting in Kaspersky Security Center 10

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Cross-Site Scripting in Kaspersky Security Center 10. DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Web Console for Kaspersky Security Center 10 allows unauthorized attackers to access some product functionality and execute...

PT-2017-12: Buffer Overflow in Intel Management Engine

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Intel Management Engine. Multiple buffer overflows in Intel Manageability Engine Firmware, Server Platform Services Firmware, and Trusted Execution Engine Firmware allow attackers with local access to...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0! What I like about this release...

PT-2018-32: Arbitrary Code Execution in NCR S1

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in NCR S1. Vulnerability in the NCR S1 Dispenser controller, related to insufficient protection of the memory write mechanism, allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code...

PT-2018-33: Arbitrary Code Execution in NCR S2

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in NCR S2. Vulnerability in the NCR S2 Dispenser controller, related to insufficient protection of the memory write mechanism, allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code...

PT-2018-31: XXE Injection in Cisco Secure ACS

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an XXE Injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure ACS. A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of the Cisco Secure Access Control Server, due to improper handling of XML External Entities XXEs when parsing an XML file, could allow...

OracleVM 3.2 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0106)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops J. Bruce Fields Orabug: 25986995 CVE-2017-7895 - ocfs2/o2net: o2netlistendataready should do nothing if socket state is not TCPLISTEN Tariq Saeed...

PT-2017-13: Elevation of Privilege in Microsoft Windows

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully...

PT-2018-20: Arbitrary Code Execution in Schneider Electric's BMXNOR0200

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in Schneider Electric's BMXNOR0200. A vulnerability in the HTTP request parser allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. How to fix Use the vendor's advisory:...

PT-2018-17: Information Disclosure in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, Modicon M340, and BMXNOR0200

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Information Disclosure vulnerability in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, Modicon M340, and BMXNOR0200. Hash collisions in algorithms used for password encryption allow attackers to obtain passwords. How to fix...

PT-2018-15: Arbitrary Code Execution in Schneider Electric's Modicon Quantum

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability in Schneider Electric's Modicon Quantum. A vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial of service, or load a malicious firmware via an FTP command used to upgrade t...

PT-2018-18: Buffer Overflow in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, and Modicon M340

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, and Modicon M340. A buffer overflow vulnerability, due to the length of the source string specified as the number of bytes to be copied instead o...

PT-2018-19: Authorization Bypass in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, Modicon M340, and BMXNOR0200

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Authorization Bypass vulnerability in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, Modicon M340, and BMXNOR0200. Vulnerability allows attackers to bypass authorization using requests to CGI functions. How to fix Use the...

PT-2018-21: Buffer Overflow in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, and Modicon M340

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Schneider Electric's Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum, and Modicon M340. A vulnerability in the web services to process SOAP requests allows attackers to trigger a buffer overflow. How to fix Use the...

Webroot 'mistakenly' flags Windows as Malware and Facebook as Phishing site

Popular antivirus service Webroot mistakenly flagged core Windows system files as malicious and even started temporarily removing some of the legit files, trashing user computers around the world. The havoc caused after the company released a bad update on April 24, which was pulled after...