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Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again

Cisco released 16 security advisories yesterday, including alerts for three vulnerabilities rated "Critical" and which received a maximum of 10 out of 10 on the CVSSv3 severity score.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 17, 2018
- 12:50 AM
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Iranian & Russian Networks Attacked Using Cisco's CVE-2018-0171 Vulnerability

Last night, a hacker group going under the name "JHT" attacked foreign network infrastructure, including Russian and Iranian networks, using the Cisco CVE-2018-0171 Smart Install vulnerability. Using this vulnerability the hackers were able to reset the routers back to their default configuration and display a message to the victims.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 07, 2018
- 04:12 PM
- 1
Cyber-Attacks on US Critical Infrastructure Linked to Cisco Switch Flaw

Cisco Talos, the cyber-security division of US IT conglomerate Cisco, said today that hackers are abusing misconfigured Cisco switches to gain a point of entry into organizations across the world.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 05, 2018
- 03:17 PM
- 0
Cisco Removes Backdoor Account from IOS XE Software

Cisco removed today a backdoor account from its IOS XE operating system that would have allowed a remote attacker to log into Cisco routers and switches with a high-privileged account.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 29, 2018
- 12:30 AM
- 0
Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software

Cisco released 22 security advisories yesterday, including two alerts for critical fixes, one of them for a hardcoded password that can give attackers full control over a vulnerable system.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 08, 2018
- 05:10 AM
- 0
Hackers Pounce on Cisco ASA Flaw (CVE-2018-0101)

Five days after details about a vulnerability in Cisco ASA software became public, hackers have now started exploiting this bug in the wild against Cisco ASA devices.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- February 08, 2018
- 12:03 PM
- 1
Cisco Fixes Remote Code Execution Bug Rated 10 Out of 10 on Severity Scale

Cisco has released software patches that fix a major vulnerability affecting Cisco devices running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 30, 2018
- 12:15 AM
- 1
Cisco Rolls Out Solution to Detect Malware in Encrypted Traffic

Yesterday, Cisco rolled out Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA), a breakthrough technology that identifies malware in encrypted traffic without the need of intercepting and decrypting data streams.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 11, 2018
- 06:05 AM
- 3
#AskACISO Interview with Youri Lammerts van Bueren, CISO of the BUCH

In this edition of #AskACISO, I interviewed Youri Lammerts van Bueren , the CISO of the BUCH, which manages the Bergen - Uitgeest - Castricum - Heiloo municipalities in the Netherlands.
- Huy Kha
- November 27, 2017
- 10:58 AM
- 0
Apache Struts Vulnerabilities May Affect Many of Cisco's Products

Cisco has initiated a mass security audit of all its products that incorporate a version of the Apache Struts framework, recently affected by a series of vulnerabilities, one of which is under active exploitation.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- September 11, 2017
- 06:30 PM
- 0
Cisco Admits to Losing Customer Data in Cloud Service Configuration Snafu

On Friday, last week, Cisco admitted that an engineering gaffe caused the company to lose customer data uploaded before a certain configuration was applied to one of its cloud services.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 08, 2017
- 12:30 AM
- 0
Cisco's Investigation into Vault 7 Leak Uncovers 0-Day Affecting 318 Products

Over 300 Cisco products are affected by a zero-day vulnerability Cisco discovered last week, and for which no patch is available at the time of writing.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 20, 2017
- 09:32 AM
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