Cisco has quickly patched two vulnerabilities that were disclosed in the ShadowBrokers’ data dump. The networking giant today released advisories that it had fixed the flaws in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), one of which was rated high severity; both of the vulnerabilities enable remote code execution. The ShadowBrokers are an unknown group of hackers...

Cisco has quickly patched one of two vulnerabilities that was disclosed in the ShadowBrokers’ data dump and issued an advisory on the other, which was patched in 2011, in order to raise awareness among its customers. The networking giant today released advisories saying that it had fixed both flaws in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), the newest of which was...

Cisco has quickly provided a workaround for one of two vulnerabilities that was disclosed in the ShadowBrokers’ data dump and issued an advisory on the other, which was patched in 2011, in order to raise awareness among its customers. The networking giant today released advisories saying that it had acknowledged both flaws in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), the newest of which...

A high-stakes game of attribution started by a group claiming to have a cache of exploits belonging to the Equation Group took a somewhat definitive turn Tuesday afternoon. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab yesterday confirmed a connection between the tools currently up for auction by the ShadowBrokers and Equation Group exploits and malware that researchers at...

Successful attacks against firmware are rare but provide hackers with one thing they covet most: persistence. Advanced attack groups have already accelerated their capabilities in finding ways to burrow into the BIOS and EFI as noted by the Snowden leaks’ description of the NSA’s attempts to develop malware implants for the BIOS. Further, last year’s...