CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” CVSS Score: 8.8 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C Overview Today, Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability in the Windows IPv6...
Over the past few months, there’s been a massive acceleration in the growth of eCommerce. Reports show that online revenue is growing 5 times faster than pre-COVID growth, and conveniences such as...
The need to quickly provide secure access for a newly remote workforce during the early days of COVID-19 drove many organizations to explore new technologies and start down a path towards a Zero...
As the nature of work changes, we’re constantly finding new ways to make communication more efficient, reliable and secure. And our mission has never been more critical than in today’s remote work...
Throughout October and November, Google Cloud is offering no-cost data analytics training. Regardless of whether you’ve just started learning how to get insights from your data or you already have...
The goal of the article is to raise awareness on security of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), propose a methodology for assessment, and a remediation strategy. Defenders are always behind...
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in SCALANCE W1750D, SCALANCE M-800 / S615 and RUGGEDCOM RM1224 devices. The highest scored vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to crash the...
BigQuery BigQuery is Google Cloud's enterprise data warehouse designed for business agility. It's serverless architecture allows you to operate at scale and run fast SQL queries over large...
A product’s launch stage signals important information to the user about its production-worthiness, supportability, polish, and price. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products have traditionally...
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this feature originally appeared on Next TV and TV Technology.From the explosion of new programming to the launch of high-profile streaming services, 2020 was...
Keeping user digital identity safe
An information exposure vulnerability exists in PcVue 12, allowing a non-authorized user to access session data of legitimate users.
A Denial of service vulnerability exists in PcVue 12, due to the ability for a non-authorized user to modify information used to validate messages sent by legitimate web clients.
An attacker with network access to the target workstation can send specially crafted packets with serialized data, which may cause remote code execution upon deserialization.
The hacker who shared with the ISIS personal data of more than 1,300 U.S. government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison. Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, is the hacker that...
In Summer 2020 we uncovered a previously unknown multi-module C++ toolset used in highly targeted industrial espionage attacks dating back to 2018.
This is an update on this previous post on foreign NT hashes where I got things a little wrong by believing the source encoding matters for an NT hash. It doesn’t really, let me show you why. I...
Between July and October 2020, researchers discovered multiple web vulnerabilities affecting Apple’s network, some of which could have allowed exfiltration of AWS access keys.
From June to August, part of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) team participated in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere Research Challenge. Our research resulted... The post Our Experiences...
Thanks to a tweet Dominic responded to, I saw someone mention Passing-the-hash when I think they actually meant relay. The terminology can be confusing for sure, however, it made me realise that I...
McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) is collaborating with Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and its Blackrock Castle Observatory (BCO) and... The post Securing Space 4.0 – One Small Step or a...
McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) is collaborating with Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and its Blackrock Castle Observatory (BCO) and... The post Securing Space 4.0 – One Small Step or a...
The percentage of computers attacked globally is decreasing. At the same time, threats are becoming more localized, more focused, and, as a result, more diverse and sophisticated.
Hackers getting better at their tradecraft and their skills are becoming more and more accessible to other bad actors via the Dark Web.
In 2020 ARC Advisory Group on behalf of Kaspersky conducted a survey on the state of industrial cybersecurity, as well as the current priorities and challenges of industrial organizations. More...
A while ago Jonas Lykkegaard disclosed a zeroday that could be used to create files in the SYSTEM folder. CVE-2020-16885 got assigned for this vulnerability, and was since patched with KB4580346....
Dive in Recent ProLock's Big Game Hunting
The end of the year is getting closer, fast, so I figured it was a perfect time to talk about my side project from last year. In this post I want to walk you through setting up a Raspberry Pi as a...
Open Source projects are the building blocks of any software development process. As we indicated in our previous blog, as... The post Vulnerability Discovery in Open Source Libraries: Analyzing...
In Q1 2020 in Europe, Kaspersky products were triggered on 20.4% of ICS computers in the energy sector. A total of 1,485 malware modifications from 633 different families were blocked.