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New Admin Takeover Vulnerability Exposed in Synology's DiskStation Manager

By Newsroom — October 18th 2023 at 06:48
A medium-severity flaw has been discovered in Synology's DiskStation Manager (DSM) that could be exploited to decipher an administrator's password and remotely hijack the account. "Under some rare conditions, an attacker could leak enough information to restore the seed of the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), reconstruct the admin password, and remotely take over the admin account,"
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High-Severity Flaws in ConnectedIO's 3G/4G Routers Raise Concerns for IoT Security

By Newsroom — October 9th 2023 at 10:49
Multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in ConnectedIO's ER2000 edge routers and the cloud-based management platform that could be exploited by malicious actors to execute malicious code and access sensitive data. "An attacker could have leveraged these flaws to fully compromise the cloud infrastructure, remotely execute code, and leak all customer and device
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Researchers Detail New Attack Method to Bypass Popular Web Application Firewalls

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 10th 2022 at 06:18
A new attack method can be used to circumvent web application firewalls (WAFs) of various vendors and infiltrate systems, potentially enabling attackers to gain access to sensitive business and customer information. Web application firewalls are a key line of defense to help filter, monitor, and block HTTP(S) traffic to and from a web application, and safeguard against attacks such as cross-site
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New Evil PLC Attack Weaponizes PLCs to Breach OT and Enterprise Networks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 16th 2022 at 10:57
Cybersecurity researchers have elaborated a novel attack technique that weaponizes programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to gain an initial foothold in engineering workstations and subsequently invade the operational technology (OT) networks. Dubbed "Evil PLC" attack by industrial security firm Claroty, the issue impacts engineering workstation software from Rockwell Automation, Schneider
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New 'ParseThru' Parameter Smuggling Vulnerability Affects Golang-based Applications

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 2nd 2022 at 12:05
Security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability called ParseThru affecting Golang-based applications that could be abused to gain unauthorized access to cloud-based applications. "The newly discovered vulnerability allows a threat actor to bypass validations under certain conditions, as a result of the use of unsafe URL parsing methods built in the language," Israeli cybersecurity firm
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