vulnerabilities

March 28, 2018

SECURITY

March 2018 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Bundled Publication

Today, we released the first Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2018. As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and September in each calendar year. Today’…

March 13, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – March 2018

Today, Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 74 new vulnerabilities, with 14 of them rated critical and 59 of them rated important. These vulnerabili…

March 5, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Workload protection is a full cycle. Tetration uniquely delivers on it all.

There’s always an inherent challenge between providing a secure infrastructure for your applications and delivering agility. How do you manage a complex web – where apps are dynamic and distributed across your own data center and the cloud – and keep security at the front of your priorities? I…

January 9, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in the CPP and Parity Ethereum Client

Talos is disclosing the presence of multiple vulnerabilities in the CPP and the Parity Ethereum clients. TALOS-2017-0503 / CVE-2017-14457 describes a denial of service vulnerability and potential memory leak in libevm. The function is not currently enabled in the default build. This vulnerability on…

December 8, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2017-0393 / CVE-2017-2886 – ACDSee Ultimate 10 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Overview Talos has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the ACDSee Ultimate 10 application from ACD Systems International Inc. Exploiting this vulnerabilities can potentially allow an attacker to gain full control over the victim’s machine. If an attacker builds a specially craf…

October 16, 2017

SECURITY

Perspective About the Recent WPA Vulnerabilities (KRACK Attacks)

On October 16th,Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, from the University of Leuven, published a paper disclosing a series of vulnerabilities that affect the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocols. These are protocol-level vulnerabilities that affect wireless ven…

October 4, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Computerinsel Photoline

These vulnerabilities are discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos. Today, Talos is releasing details of multiple vulnerabilities discovered within the Computerinsel GmbH PhotoLine image processing software. PhotoLine, developed by Computerinsel GmbH, is a well established raster and vector graphics…

September 27, 2017

SECURITY

September 2017 Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Bundled Publication

Today, we released the last Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2017. (As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and September in each calendar year).  Today’s edition o…

September 21, 2017

SECURITY

CSAF Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) Version 1.2 is Now Available

I am pleased to announce that the OASIS CSAF Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) Version 1.2 committee specification is now available. As covered in our previous blog posts, the purpose of the OASIS Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) Technical Committee (TC) is to standardize the…