Intel is warning of a rare critical-severity vulnerability affecting several of its motherboards, server systems and compute modules. The flaw could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to achieve escalated privileges. The recently patched flaw (CVE-2020-8708) ranks 9.6 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, making it critical.
The Chinese government has deployed an update to its national censorship tool, known as the Great Firewall (GFW), to block encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 with ESNI (Encrypted Server Name Indication) enabled.
FireEye is extending its private bug-bounty program to the public. The expanded program, like its predecessors, will be run in partnership with Bugcrowd. Anyone with credentials on the Bugcrowd platform can submit vulnerabilities to the program, which will pay a bounty of $50 to $2,500 depending on the bug’s severity and potential impact.
Troy Hunt, the security expert who handles the breach notification website Have I Been Pwned, announced that he is ready to make the code behind the site available in open source. According to him, the code will be turned over to the public for the betterment of the project and for the betterment of everyone who uses it.
Сybersecurity researchers have discovered critical vulnerabilities in industrial VPN implementations primarily used to provide remote access to operational technology (OT) networks that could allow hackers to overwrite data, execute malicious code, and compromise industrial control systems (ICS).
Japan is poised to start work on global quantum key distribution service and associated infrastructure. Toshiba as a lead contractor of this project aims to build a wide-area network that can accommodate over 100 quantum cryptographic devices and 10,000 users around the world.
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, NATO CCDCOE, published “Malware Reverse Engineering Handbook”. It gives an overview of how to analyze malware executables that are targeting the Windows platform. The authors are presenting the most common techniques used in malware investigation and also incident response and collaboration tools.
A coalition of dozens of top cybersecurity and Internet freedom groups, academics and experts sent a blistering letter to the sponsors of an anti-encryption Senate bill they say would make hundreds of millions of Americans more vulnerable to hacking. The bill, called the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, is the harshest among a number of efforts to weaken encryption across the Justice Department and Congress.
Business giant SAP released a patch for a major vulnerability that impacts the vast majority of its customers. The bug, codenamed RECON, exposes companies to easy hacks, according to cloud security firm Onapsis. Onapsis says RECON allows malicious threat actors to create an SAP user account with maximum privileges on SAP applications exposed on the internet, granting attackers full control over the hacked companies’ SAP resources.
US Senators introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, a bill to bolster national security interests and better protect communities across the country by ending the use of “warrant-proof” encrypted technology by terrorists and other bad actors to conceal illicit behavior.
Security researchers from the Shadowserver Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on improving cyber-security practices across the world, have published a warning about companies that are leaving printers exposed online. Experts said they usually found an average of around 80,000 printers exposing themselves online via the IPP port on a daily basis.
Starting with September 1, 2020, browsers and devices from Apple, Google, and Mozilla will show errors for new TLS certificates that have a lifespan greater than 398 days. Apple unilaterally took this decision in February 2020, following their announcement, other companies have stated similar intentions to implement the same rule in their browsers.
Microsoft announced that it would be acquiring CyberX, a security startup that focuses specifically on detecting, stopping, and predicting security breaches on internet of things networks and the networks of large industrial organizations.
A newly disclosed UPnP vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2020-12695 and is referred to as CallStranger, affects billions of devices can be exploited for various types of malicious activities, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This vulnerability can also be used for bypassing DLP and network security devices to exfiltrate data and scanning internal ports from Internet facing UPnP devices.
With the release of the June 2020 Patch security updates, Microsoft has released one advisory for an Adobe Flash Player update and fixes for 129 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Of these vulnerabilities, 11 are classified as Critical, 109 as Important, 7 as Moderate, and 2 as Low.
Two separate teams of academic researchers published papers describing flaws in Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX). The aim of SGX is to protect application code and data from disclosure or modification. The recently uncovered flaws can prevent SGX from achieving its goal, the research teams showed.
