In the funniest disclosure I’ve read in some time (well, it would be if it wasn’t so terribly dangerous), it turns out that these teleconferencing units had a hardcoded admin account with extra permissions built in with username BlackWidow. In the first “fix”, AMX basically changed the user to Batman. Poor show. SEC Consult: Deliberately Read more about Deliberately hidden backdoor account in several AMX (HARMAN Professional) devices used by whitehouse, CIA, NSA, for communications[…]

Scores of security bods registering for security outfit RSA’s Executive Security Action Forum (ESAF) have handed over their Twitter account passwords to the company’s website in what is seen something between bad practise and outright compromise. The registration process for the February 29 event asks delegates to enter their Twitter credentials so that a prefab Read more about RSA asks for plaintext Twitter passwords on conference reg page[…]

Basically the driver updater looks over HTTP and downloads an unencrypted, easily parsable XML file with URLs leading to the files to download and execute as admin. A man in the middle attack could easily exploit this. Source: Intel Driver Update Utility MiTM This is a lot like the Drupal update vulnerability.

Over in the multimedia business, users of the company’s D9036 multimedia encoding platform also need to pick up a firmware upgrade, because Cisco devs built the firmware with a static password for both the root account and the guest account. Source: Cisco patch day fixes CGI script blunder, hard-coded credentials oh dear

So should we expect a critical mass of consumers to walk away from organizations because their mobile health apps do not have the level of security protection they expect? Based on these research findings, perhaps. When put to the test, the majority of mobile health apps failed security tests and could easily be hacked. Among Read more about 5th Annual State of Application Security Report (Healthcare) 2016[…]

The French government has rejected an amendment to its forthcoming Digital Republic law that required backdoors in encryption systems. Axelle Lemaire, the Euro nation’s digital affairs minister, shot down the amendment during the committee stage of the forthcoming omnibus digital bill, saying it would be counterproductive and would leave personal data unprotected. “Recent events show Read more about French say ‘Non, merci’ to encryption backdoors[…]

Het virus sloeg als eerste toe op de afdeling pathologie en verspreidde zich razendsnel over het ziekenhuis-netwerk. Hierdoor moesten veel medewerkers een hoop handelingen handmatig uitvoeren. Processen als bloed- en weefselverwerking konden niet meer worden uitgevoerd door de computers en ook de verpleegsters moesten samenwerken met de afdeling die het eten verzorgde om ervoor te Read more about Royal Melbourne hospital runs XP, dives into chaos when virus attacks.[…]

The information leak is exploitable in the default configuration of the OpenSSH client, and (depending on the client’s version, compiler, and operating system) allows a malicious SSH server to steal the client’s private keys,” Qualys said in its advisory. “This information leak may have already been exploited in the wild by sophisticated attackers, and high-profile Read more about OpenSSH Private Crypto Key Leak Patch[…]

ffmpeg has a vulnerability in the current version that allows the attacker to create a specially crafted video file, downloading which will send files from a user PC to a remote attacker server. The attack does not even require the user to open that file – for example, KDE Dolphin thumbnail generation is enough. Desktop Read more about FFmpeg allows file ops when it reads a video file[…]

The investigation identified signs of unauthorized access to payment card data from cards used onsite at certain Hyatt-managed locations, primarily at restaurants, between August 13, 2015 and December 8, 2015. A small percentage of the at-risk cards were used at spas, golf shops, parking, and a limited number of front desks, or provided to a Read more about Hyatt leaks customer credit card details[…]

It’s 2016 and you may have thought we’d all be a little older and wiser than this time last year. But as you read this list of 2015’s most popular passwords, you will shake your head, mumble unmentionables and reach the firm conclusion that, no, we are in fact all still complete and utter morons. Read more about The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2015[…]

Someone’s palm is digging a hole into their face at Cisco, which has just admitted it shipped a bunch of servers with the wrong default password. “A number of C-Series servers have shipped to customers with a non-standard default password which prevents access to the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) unless the configured password is Read more about Cisco forgot its own passwords for seven weeks[…]

RedTeam Pentesting discovered that several models of the AVM FRITZ!Box are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the device. Source: RedTeam Pentesting GmbH – AVM FRITZ!Box: Remote Code Execution via Buffer Overflow

Anyone who uses this script against vulnerable firewalls will gain administrator-level command-line access to the equipment. After some outcry on Twitter and beyond, Fortinet responded by saying it has already killed off the dodgy login system. “This issue was resolved and a patch was made available in July 2014 as part of Fortinet’s commitment to Read more about Fortinet tries to explain weird SSH ‘backdoor’ discovered in firewalls, calls it “management authentication issue”[…]

Ormandy, who has made something of a career of late discovering holes in popular security software, analyzed a component in Trend’s software dubbed Password Manager. He found that multiple HTTP RPC ports for handling API requests were accessible. “It took about 30 seconds to spot one that permits arbitrary command execution, openUrlInDefaultBrowser, which eventually maps Read more about Trend Micro AV gave any website command-line access to Windows PCs[…]