Cisco Talos

Vulnerability Spotlight: Talos-2018-0694 – MKVToolNix mkvinfo read_one_element Code Execution Vulnerability

Piotr Bania, Cory Duplantis and Martin Zeiser of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing a vulnerability that we identified in the MKVToolNix mkvinfo utility that parses…

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Linksys ESeries Multiple OS Command Injection Vulnerabilities

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Jared Rittle of Cisco Talos Today, Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities that have been identified in Linksys E Series of routers operating system. Multiple exploitable…

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday — October 18: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 49 vulnerabilities, 12 of which are rated “critical,”…

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Vulnerability in the Intel Unified Shader compiler for the Intel Graphics Accelerator

Vulnerabilities discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos Talos is disclosing a pointer corruption vulnerability in the Intel Unified Shader compiler for the Intel Graphics Accelerator. OVERVIEW In order for…

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Collab reviewServer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Today, Talos is releasing details of a new vulnerability within Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most popular and…

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Atlantis Word Processor

Atlantis Word Processor is a portable word processor that is also capable of converting any TXT, RTF, ODT, DOC, WRI, or DOCX document into an eBook in the ePub format.

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Cisco Security prominent at NIAS, NATO’s largest cyber security conference

Cisco Security will again have a prominent presence as Gold sponsor at NIAS, NATO’s largest cyber conference that takes place October 16-18 in Mons, Belgium.

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IDA-minsc Wins Second Place in Hex-Rays Plugins Contest

Ali Rizvi-Santiago of Cisco Talos recently tied second place in the IDA plugin contest with a plugin named “IDA-minsc.” IDA is a multi-processor disassembler and debugger created by…

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Multiple Cobalt Personality Disorder

Despite the notion that modern cybersecurity protocols have stopped email-based attacks, email continues to be one of the primary attack vectors for malicious actors — both for widespread and targeted…

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Blocking Cryptocurrency Mining with Cisco Talos

The value of cryptocurrencies has fluctuated wildly, but the value is still high enough to garner a lot of attention, both legitimate and malicious. Most of the malicious…

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