Millions of IoT Devices Vulnerable to Z-Wave Downgrade Attacks, Researchers Claim

The popular home automation protocol Z-Wave, used by millions of IoT devices, is vulnerable to a downgrade attack that could allow an adversary to take control of targeted devices, according to researchers. Z-Wave is a wireless protocol used by 2,400 vendors; its wireless chipsets are embedded in...

Z-Wave Downgrade Attack Left Over 100 Million IoT Devices Open to Hackers

Researchers have found that even after having an advanced encryption scheme in place, more than 100 million Internet-of-Things IoT devices from thousands of vendors are vulnerable to a downgrade attack that could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to your devices. The issue resides in th...

Z-Wave Downgrade Attack Left Over 100 Million IoT Devices Open to Hackers

Researchers have found that even after having an advanced encryption scheme in place, more than 100 million Internet-of-Things IoT devices from thousands of vendors are vulnerable to a downgrade attack that could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to your devices. The issue resides in th...

Z-Shave. Exploiting Z-Wave downgrade attacks

TL;DR: Stronger S2 Z-Wave pairing security process can be downgraded to weak S0, exposing smart devices to compromise. Z-Wave uses a shared network key to secure traffic. This key is exchanged between the controller and the client devices ‘nodes’ when the devices are paired. The keys are used to...

Microsoft Windows WAV File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems released by the American company Microsoft. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service in the context of Explorer or other current processes...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in One Wave Website Building System

Hefei Yilang Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a professional network design company integrating creativity, design, production and development. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the One Wave Network website builder system. Attackers can use the vulnerability to obtain sensitive database...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10536

An issue was discovered in WavPack 5.1.0 and earlier. The WAV parser component contains a vulnerability that allows writing to memory because ParseRiffHeaderConfig in riff.c does not reject multiple format chunks...

manuals-backend.z-wave.info XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-607291 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| manuals-backend.z-wave.info Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Word Attachment Delivers FormBook Malware, No Macros Required

A new wave of document attacks targeting inboxes do not require enabling macros in order for adversaries to trigger an infection chain that ultimately delivers FormBook malware. Researchers at Menlo Security are reporting a wave of attacks that began last month that are targeting financial and...

New 10 Second SLA For Rapid DDoS Mitigation

Two months ago, we updated the Imperva Incapsula SLA service level agreement to guarantee network and application layer DDoS attack mitigation in under 10 seconds. This commitment sets a new standard for time to mitigation TTM, made possible by improvements to our DDoS mitigation technology and...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18207

The Waveread.readfmtchunk function in Lib/wave.py in Python through 3.6.4 does not ensure a nonzero channel value, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero and exception via a crafted wav format audio file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue because Python applications...

Python 'Wave_read._read_fmt_chunk' function denial of service vulnerability

Python is an open source, object-oriented programming language from the Python Software Foundation. The language is extensible, supports modules and packages, and supports multiple platforms. A security vulnerability exists in the 'waveread.readfmtchunk' function in the Lib/wave.py file in Python...

PT-2018-6736 · Python +2 · Python +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Python versions through 3.6.4 Description: The issue concerns the Wave read. read fmt chunk function in Lib/wave.py, which does not ensure a nonzero channel value. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted wav format...

openSUSE Security Update : lame (openSUSE-2018-214)

This update for lame fixes the following issues : Lame was updated to version 3.100 : - Improved detection of MPEG audio data in RIFF WAVE files. sf3545112 Invalid sampling detection - New switch --gain , range -20.0 to +12.0, a more convenient way to apply Gain adjustment in decibels, than the u...

Security update for lame (important)

This update for lame fixes the following issues: Lame was updated to version 3.100: Improved detection of MPEG audio data in RIFF WAVE files. sf3545112 Invalid sampling detection New switch --gain decibel, range -20.0 to +12.0, a more convenient way to apply Gain adjustment in decibels, than the...

USN-3568-1 wavpack vulnerabilities

Hanno Böck discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain WV files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-10169 Joonun Jang discovered that WavPack incorrectly handled certain RF64 files. An...

CVE-2018-6767

An out-of-bounds stack buffer read flaw was found in WavPack. This flaw could potentially be used to crash WavPack CLI utilities by tricking them into processing specially crafted WAVE files...

Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

The Forrester Wave Ranks Imperva as a Leader for DDoS Mitigation Providers

Imperva has tracked the DDoS threat for some time now. Back in 2014 we saw the rise of DDoS botnets. In 2015, we revealed one of the first IoT-based DDoS attacks. Last year, we predicted and then documented one of the largest botnet-based DDoS attacks. DDoS mitigation, as it turns out, is the...

Nullsoft Winamp Pro Denial of Service Vulnerability

Nullsoft Winamp Pro is a set of free media player software developed by Nullsoft Corporation in the United States. The program supports a wide range of media formats, skinning and plug-in extensions, as well as the most basic playlist and media library features. A security vulnerability exists in...