Meet Tim Vereecke: Technical Solutions Architect

Tim Vereecke, technical solutions architect at Akamai, discusses how he uses a developer-first mindset to find internet performance solutions...

Coffee app in hot water for constant tracking of user location

A mobile app violated Canadas privacy laws via some pretty significant overreach with its tracking of device owners. The violation will apparently not bring the app owners, Tim Hortons, any form of punishment. However, the fallout from this incident may hopefully serve as a warning to others with...

Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times

The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop...

Siemens SIMATIC Industrial Products Operation On a Resource After Expiration or Release (CVE-2021-37185)

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Drive Controller family All versions = V2.9.2 = V21.9 = V4.5.0 = V2.9.2 = V21.9 = V4.0 V4.0 SP1, SIPLUS TIM 1531 IRC All versions V2.3.6, TIM 1531 IRC All versions V2.3.6. An unauthenticated attacker could cause a denial- of-service condition in a PL...

CVE-2021-37204

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Drive Controller family All versions = V2.9.2 = V21.9 = V4.5.0 = V2.9.2 = V21.9 = V4.0 V4.0 SP1, SIPLUS TIM 1531 IRC All versions V2.3.6, TIM 1531 IRC All versions V2.3.6. An unauthenticated attacker could cause a denial-of-service condition in a PLC...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Multiple Siemens Industrial Products (CNVD-2022-10003)

SIMATIC Drive Controller family products are machines designed for production automation, combining the functionality of the SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU and the SINAMICS S120 drive control.SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family products are designed for discrete and continuous control in industrial environments such...

Multiple Siemens Industrial Products Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SIMATIC Drive Controller family products are machines designed for production automation, combining the functionality of the SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU and the SINAMICS S120 drive control.SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family products are designed for discrete and continuous control in industrial environments such...

Siemens SIMATIC, SIMOCODE, SINAMICS, SITOP, and TIM Out-of-Bounds Read (CVE-2019-6568)

The webserver of the affected devices contains a vulnerability that may lead to a denial of service condition. An attacker may cause a denial of service situation which leads to a restart of the webserver of the affected device. The security vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with...

CVE-2020-28397

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Drive Controller family All versions V2 V2.5 V2.5 V21.9, TIM 1531 IRC incl. SIPLUS NET variants Version V2.1. Due to an incorrect authorization check in the affected component, an attacker could extract information about access protected PLC program...

CVE-2020-28397

CVE-2020-28397 affects Siemens SIMATIC products due to an incorrect authorization check that could allow an attacker to read information about access-protected PLC variables via port 102/tcp when multiple attributes are read. Affected: SIMATIC Drive Controller family (all versions < V2.9.2); S...

Siemens SIMATIC and TIM

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIMATIC, TIM Vulnerability: Incorrect Authorization 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to read PLC variables from...

Cutting Through the Noise from Daily Alerts

According to a survey run on IR and SOC teams, analysts are required to keep track of an average of 6.8 threat intelligence feeds and manually handle an excessive number of alerts. The average security operations team receives over 11,000 alerts per day. Most of an analyst’s time almost 70% is...

From basic text to streaming 4K movies: A brief history of the World Wide Web

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote his proposal for the World Wide Web WWW in 1989, he probably didn’t predict just how much his ideas would change the way we communicate. With about 1.83 billion websites to date, the World Wide Web has been the cornerstone of the information age. Famously Berners-Le...

Siemens Industrial Products LLDP (Update D)

As of January 10, 2023, CISA will no longer be updating ICS security advisories for Siemens product vulnerabilities beyond the initial advisory. For the most up-to-date information on vulnerabilities in this advisory, please seeSiemens' ProductCERT Security Advisories CERT Services | Services |...

Siemens TIM 1531 IRC

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: TIM 1531 IRC Vulnerability: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a...

Siemens SIMATIC TIM libcurl

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIMATIC TIM libcurl Vulnerabilities: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor, Improper Certificate Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these...

Siemens SIMATIC Communication Processor Vulnerability (Update C)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIMATIC Communication Processor Vulnerability: Authentication Bypass Issues 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the advisory update titled ICSA-15-335-03...

Siemens TIM 4R-IE Devices

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: TIM 4R-IE Vulnerabilities: Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast, Improper Input Validation, Improper Authentication, Security Features, Null Pointer Dereference, Data Processing Errors,...

TIM Office social software has a logic flaw vulnerability

Tim is an office social software app from Tencent that supports QQ and WeChat login. TIM office social software has a logic flaw vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers to forge other people's identity to carry out activities...

GHSA-3P32-J457-PG5X Query Binding Exploitation

Description Laravel versions 6.20.12, 7.30.3 & 8.22.1 contain a query binding exploitation. If a request is crafted where a field that is normally a non-array value is an array, and that input is not validated or cast to its expected type before being passed to the query builder, an unexpected...