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Siemens Patches Flaws in SIMATIC, XHQ Products

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Jun

2017

Siemens and ICS-CERT published advisories this week to alert users of improper authentication and privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting some SIMATIC and XHQ products. The SIMATIC communication processor (CP) of the Redundant Network Access (RNA) series, which is designed for connecting S7-400 CPUs to industrial ethernet, is affected by a critical vulnerability that allows a remote, […]

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GhostHook Attack Bypasses Windows 10 PatchGuard

23

Jun

2017

A bypass of PatchGuard kernel protection in Windows 10 has been developed that brings rootkits for the latest version of the OS within reach of attackers. Since the introduction of PatchGuard and DeviceGuard, very few 64-bit Windows rootkits have been observed; Windows 10’s security, in particular its mitigations against memory-based attacks, are well regarded. Researchers […]

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Cisco Patches XXE, DOS, Code Execution Vulnerabilities

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Jun

2017

Cisco patched three vulnerabilities in three products this week that if exploited, could have resulted in a denial of service, crash, and in some instances, arbitrary and remote code execution. According to security advisories published Wednesday, each of the vulnerabilities are branded “high” severity by Cisco. One of the issues, an XML External Entity (XXE) […]

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