Vulnerability in Cisco industrial appliances is a potential nightmare (CVE-2023-20076)

Cisco has released patches for a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-20076) found in some of its industrial routers, gateways and enterprise wireless access points, which may allow attackers to insert malicious code that can’t be deleted by simply rebooting the device or updating its firmware. “In this case, the command injection bypasses mitigations Cisco has in place […]

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Video walkthrough: Cybertech Tel Aviv 2023

Help Net Security is in Israel this week for Cybertech Tel Aviv 2023, talking to the key players from the cybersecurity industry and businesses from a wide range of sectors, who gathered to exchange knowledge, to network, and learn about technological innovations and solutions for combating cyber threats. The vendors featured in this video are: […]

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Cisco Unified CM SQL Injection Flaw Let Attackers Execute Crafted SQL Queries

Cisco released fixes for Unified Communications Manager (CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition to address high-severity SQL injection vulnerability. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the application as a low-privileged user and sending crafted SQL queries to an affected system”, Cisco reports. “A successful exploit could allow the attacker to […]

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Around 19,500 end-of-life Cisco routers are exposed to hack

Researchers warn of about 19,500 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet that are exposed to the recently disclosed RCE exploit chain. Cisco recently warned of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20025 (CVSS score of 9.0), that impacts small business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers. The IT giant announced that these devices will receive no security […]

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Cisco won’t fix router flaws even though PoC exploit is available (CVE-2023-20025, CVE-2023-20026)

Cisco has acknowledged one critical (CVE-2023-20025) and two medium-severity (CVE-2023-20026, CVE-2023-20045) vulnerabilities affecting some of its Small Business series of routers, but won’t be fixing them as the devices “have entered the end-of-life process.” Proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2023-20025 and CVE-2023-20026 is available online, but there is currently no indication of any of these flaws […]

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Ransomware: The security debt collector

High-profile ransomware news stories grabbed headlines a few years ago but faded in popularity as other attacks like cryptojacking grew more profitable. Since the first months of 2020, ransomware attacks have been on the rise and are in the news again. In this presentation, Dave Lewis, Global Advisory CISO at Cisco, talks about the historical […]

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