CISA’s August 19 advisory batch once again put industrial control systems at the center of urgent cybersecurity attention, flagging four distinct advisories that collectively underscore persistent weaknesses in building management, identity federation, solar-edge gateways, and distributed...
Security professionals are once again on high alert as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updates its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog with three newly observed threat vectors. This evolving catalog remains at the core of the federal government’s defense...
Microsoft’s July 2025 Patch Tuesday lands with considerable urgency, carrying updates that address a staggering 137 distinct flaws across its ecosystem, including one publicly disclosed zero-day in Microsoft SQL Server. With business, government, and individual users heavily dependent on...
Industrial automation and control systems form the backbone of modern manufacturing, energy, water, and critical infrastructure sites around the world. One player that has become synonymous with reliability in this realm is Emerson, whose ValveLink product line has long enabled engineers to...
June 2025 brought several new vulnerabilities into sharp focus for IT professionals, from newly disclosed exploits in core enterprise federation services to critical flaws lurking in everyday collaboration platforms. Cutting through the noise, it’s clear that not every CVE carries equal...
Each passing month underscores a relentless reality for IT defenders: adversaries move faster than patch cycles, exploiting weaknesses long before many organizations are even aware they exist. May 2025 drove this point home with a wave of high-severity vulnerabilities—several already...
Hitachi Energy’s Service Suite is an integral operational component for organizations across the global energy sector, seamlessly connecting field workforce management with the core tenets of critical infrastructure reliability. However, a sweeping array of cybersecurity vulnerabilities recently...
A new chapter in cloud security transparency has arrived, one defined by the simultaneous emergence of major critical vulnerabilities and a commendable industry commitment to open disclosure. Over the past week, Microsoft confirmed the existence and subsequent mitigation of multiple, previously...
The disclosure of several critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem, including one rated as a perfect 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), marks a pivotal moment in both the enterprise security landscape and public trust in hyperscale providers. Microsoft’s...
Microsoft's recent April 2025 patch for Windows introduced a curious and controversial change that has IT administrators and security experts buzzing—a mysterious "inetpub" folder appearing by default on systems, including those not using Internet Information Services (IIS). Far from a mere...
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The cybersecurity landscape for industrial control systems has once again shifted, with recent advisories drawing sharp attention to vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation solutions utilizing VMware technologies. These vulnerabilities hover near the top of the risk spectrum, with multiple CVEs...
Siemens SCALANCE LPE9403 Vulnerabilities: The Unspoken Risks of Industrial Connectivity
The swift evolution of industrial control systems (ICS) has bred a digital backbone for critical infrastructure sectors worldwide—enabling unprecedented efficiency, flexibility, and reach. However, this rapid...
The world of industrial automation rarely makes headlines outside specialist circles—except when vulnerabilities are discovered that have the potential to reverberate far beyond a single company or software user base. Such is the case with the recent advisory from the Cybersecurity and...
Every update to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog is a signal flare for organizations across the digital landscape: the threat is not abstract, and these risks are no longer about “what if,” but rather “when and where.” The recent catalog addition of CVE-2025-24813, an Apache Tomcat...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has once again underscored the dynamic and ever-pressing nature of cybersecurity threats by adding six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. These additions, prompted by concrete evidence of active...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken another significant step to bolster national cybersecurity by adding five new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. This move isn't merely another bureaucratic update—it reflects the relentless...
If you’re running critical infrastructure with Schneider Electric Modicon controllers and you slept well last night, it’s probably because you missed the latest vulnerability roundup. The risk profile for Modicon M580, M340, Premium, Quantum, and a grab bag of others has reached that rarefied...
In a collaborative stride toward fortifying cybersecurity, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and various international partners, recently unveiled a crucial advisory detailing the...
There are times when we get too close to a topic. We familiarize ourselves with every aspect and nuance, but fail to recognize not everyone else has done the same. Whether you consider this myopia, navel-gazing, or human nature, the effect is the same. I recognized this during the recent webcast...
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Hi everyone – Mike Reavey here. Today, we’re releasing our December set of security updates. As we do every month, we're providing a heads-up on what’s coming in this month’s release as well as offering links to more information so you can plan your deployment. However...