There is a critical security flaw in a Cisco phone adapter, and the business technology giant says the only step to take is dumping the hardware and migrating to new kit.
In an advisory, Cisco this week warned about the vulnerability in the SPA112 2-Port Adapter that, if exploited, could allow a remote attacker to essentially take control of a compromised device by seizing full privileges and executing arbitrary code.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20126, is rated as "critical," with a base score o
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Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw
WPA stands for will-provide-access, if you can successfully exploit a target's setup
The government of France has banned TikTok – and all other recreational apps – from phones issued to its employees.
The nation's ministère de la transformation et de la fonction publiques last Friday issued a statement PDF announcing the policy, which minister of transformation and public service Stanislas Guerini justified on grounds that no recreational apps have sufficiently robust security for them to be deployed on government-owned devices.
A series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down seven German airports' websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights.
Switchzilla hardware and software need attention, unless you fancy arbitrary remote code execution
Gone in 60 seconds using a USB-A plug and brute force instead of a key
What's allowed for Cupertino is verboten for everyone else
Apple has again been sued for promising privacy and allegedly failing to provide it.
The complaint [PDF], filed in Northern California District Court on behalf of plaintiff Julie Cima, claims Apple captures iPhone customer data despite device settings declaring a preference that information should not be shared.
Microsoft's move last year to block macros by default in Office applications is forcing miscreants to find other tools with which to launch cyberattacks, including the software vendor's LNK files – the shortcuts Windows uses to point to other files.
No passwords, but plenty of stuff for social engineering and doxxing
75 collars felt, $1.2m seized in bid to cut off crime network’s financial lifeline
A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won't have a patch until next week
MIT CSAIL boffins devise PACMAN attack to let existing exploits avoid pointer authentication
Tracking, marketing, and analytics firms have been exfiltrating the email addresses of internet users from web forms prior to submission and without user consent, according to security researchers.
Cyberattacks took down Finnish government websites on Friday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Finland's members of parliament (MPs).
Operation Cache Panda went after software used by majority of industry players
What geopolitical standoff could this possibly be linked to?
