The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has recently issued a high-severity advisory concerning multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Office products. These security flaws could potentially allow attackers to gain elevated privileges, access sensitive data, execute...
The Windows Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) Service has been identified with a critical vulnerability, designated as CVE-2025-47976. This flaw is a use-after-free issue that allows authorized attackers to elevate their privileges locally, potentially gaining SYSTEM-level access...
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In the rapidly evolving world of industrial control systems (ICS), vulnerabilities within automation infrastructure can reverberate far beyond the factory floor, exposing critical manufacturing environments to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Recent advisories concerning the FESTO...
It probably wasn’t on your 2025 bingo card to revisit a discontinued home automation relic threatened by remote hackers with a penchant for credential snatching, but here we are: the Schneider Electric Wiser Home Controller WHC-5918A is back in the limelight—and not for a firmware upgrade. If...
Original release date: August 12, 2020
Summary
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is currently tracking an unknown malicious cyber actor who is spoofing the Small Business Administration (SBA) COVID-19 loan relief webpage via phishing emails. These emails include a...
Original release date: June 05, 2017
Systems Affected
SNMP enabled devices
Overview
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) may be abused to gain unauthorized access to network devices. SNMP provides a standardized framework for a common language that is used for monitoring and...
I have a user account password on my Windows 10 machine at home and am wondering whether this actually increases security against remote attackers or if it's solely for protecting against local attacks.