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Critical Flaws in Cisco Small Business Switches Could Allow Remote Attacks

Cisco has released updates to address a set of nine security flaws in its Small Business Series Switches that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. “These vulnerabilities are due to improper validation of requests that are sent to the web interface,” Cisco said, […]

A DNS Exploit Is A Huge Risk That Can Disrupt The Internet

A cybercriminal who takes advantage of compromised credentials rather than having to hack a DNS server, warning a DNS expert, is what we call DNS-level attacks. This is getting popular in the cyber world. One interesting thing about attacks such as DNSpionage and Sea Turtle, Infoblox’s vice president of engineering, chief DNS architect and senior […]

EXPLOIT CODE RELEASED FOR NTP VULNERABILITY

A researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol daemon that could crash a server with a single, malformed packet. The Network Time Foundation’s NTP Project on Monday patched the bug and nine others with the release of NTP 4.2.8p9. The vulnerability affected NTP 4.2.7p22 up to NTP 4.2.8p9, […]