This week both SonicWall and Cisco have released patches for critical vulnerabilities in their networking products. SonicWall zero day The SonicWall vulnerability (CVE-2021-20016) is a zero-day under active attack – in fact it was used to breach SonicWall’s own network in January according to their security advisory. The flaw affects SonicWall SMA 100 series devicesRead more
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Several critical switch vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to break network segmentation have been patched by Cisco. Dubbed CDPwn by the researchers at Armis who discovered the flaws, the vulnerabilities exists in a Level 2 networking protocol called Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP). Network segmentation is an effective security strategy that isolates data and systemsRead more
HP has issued a critical firmware update for a large number of their SSD drives which will fail after 32768 hours of operation. The defect in the firmware for the SSD drives will cause them to fail and all data on the drive to be permanently lost after 32,768 hours of operation. That’s 3 years,Read more
Remote access attacks allow authentication bypass and remote code execution Cisco has just released urgent patches for their RV320 and RV325 WAN VPN routers. The patches resolve two critical vulnerabilities in the router’s firmware: CVE-2019-1653 – allows a remote attacker to get sensitive device configuration details without a password (including the hashed passwords for allRead more
