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Cisco Backdoor Account & Other Critical Vulnerabilities

April 3, 2018ByIn, , , , , , , ,
Hello, Very recently Cisco announced 3 “critical risk” and numerous other “high risk” vulnerabilities. One of those vulnerabilities affect IOS XE devices which come with a default pre-configured privileged account which if known could grant easy access to the device by an attacker. Some sources say that this made its way by mistake from testing...
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Security Alert: Processors Meltdown!

January 9, 2018ByIn, , , , , ,
Hello, Recently multiple disclosed security vulnerabilities took the Internet by storm. Dubbed “Meldown” and “Spectre”, those vulnerabilities seem to affect numerous systems and processors including Intel, AMD, ARM; thus it has the potential to affect PCs, servers, networking equipment, mobile devices and even cloud. An attacker can exploit those vulnerabilities by running a special code...
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Wifi is no Longer Secure – WPA2 got KRACKed !

October 17, 2017ByIn, , , , , , , ,
On October 16, 2017, Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of imec-DistriNet published a paper detailing their discovery of security weaknesses in WPA2. WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access II) is a widely used security protocol developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance for the purpose of  encrypting and securing the traffic on Wi-fi connections between the Wi-fi router and endpoints. WPA2...
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Security Alert: Cisco ASA SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6366)

August 25, 2016ByIn, , , , ,
Hello, Very recently, a new security vulnerability affecting Cisco ASA & Firepower was discovered. Below are the short details: Background: A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) code of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute...
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Multiple Cisco Security Vulnerabilities (ASA, CUCM, WLC, etc.)

April 21, 2016ByIn, , , , , , ,
Hello, On April 20th, Cisco released multiple advisories detailing security vulnerabilities that affect a wide range of their products including ASA firewall, Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), WLC and more. The vulnerabilities, if exploited, would allow an attacker to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the device, possibly resulting in service disruption. The vulnerabilities details and remedies...
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DROWN Attack (CVE-2016-0800), Turing Award and Leo’s Oscar

March 2, 2016ByIn, , , , , , , ,
Hello, A new security vulnerability (“DROWN“: Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption) affecting OpenSSL was disclosed yesterday which allows an attacker to decrypt secure TLS sessions and steal sensitive data such as passwords and credit cards information. All applications that rely on TLS protocol (like websites and email) are therefore affected. The vulnerability (id:...
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Security Alert: Glibc Buffer Overflow (CVE-2015-7547)

February 22, 2016ByIn, , , , , , ,
Hello,   Following our previous communication concerning the announcements of OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2016-0701) and Cisco’s ASA IKE Buffer Overflow (CVE-2016-1287), a new security vulnerability surfaced which targets systems that use the “GNU Library C (glbic)” (including Cisco, Juniper and many others). “The glibc DNS client side resolver is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when...
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Logjam Security Vulnerability (CVE-2015-4000)

June 16, 2015ByIn, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Following the continuous revealing of security vulnerabilities with the most unimaginable names such as “Shellshock” (CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169), “POODLE” (CVE-2014-3566), “POODLE 2.0” (CVE-2014-8730) and “GHOST” (CVE-2015-0235) affecting SSL, TLS and other widely-used security protocols, it was just a matter of time until the curtain rolled revealing the latest security vulnerability this time affecting Diffie-Hellman algorithm for...
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