Category: technology

Comment from Tenable on the Cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline

“Cyberattacks are a real and present danger to critical infrastructure around the world and, by extension, every single consumer. If reports are accurate, the Colonial Pipeline incident has all of the markings of a possible ransomware attack that began in the IT environment and, out of precaution, forced the...

Critical vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software

Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN vManage Software. One of which allows an attacker to perform actions not granted to average users, such as creating accounts with administrative level access. Please find below a comment from Satnam Narang, Staff Research Engineer, Tenable. “Cisco patched multiple vulnerabilities on Wednesday, including several flaws in...

Comment on World Password Day from Kartik Shahani, Country Manager, Tenable

Cyber attacks are on the rise in India with the number of incidents increasing threefold in the last one year. Be it a major breach like SolarWinds or phishing and ransomware attacks, cybercriminals always take the easiest route to obtain privileged credentials. In many instances, phishing and ransomware scams...

Comment from Tenable on BadAlloc flaws

Microsoft disclosed more than 25 critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in OT and IoT devices that could enable an attacker to bypass security controls and execute malicious code or cause a system to crash in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks. “Vulnerabilities such as the BadAlloc flaws underscore the need for...

Microchip Announces the Expansion of its Radiation Hardened ARM

New Delhi, April 29, 2021 – Deep space initiatives including planetary exploration, orbiter missions and space research require innovative spacecraft system technology providing connectivity and processing. To enable system designers better integration and higher performance while reducing development costs and time to market, COTS technologies and scalable solutions are...