We've been collecting and mirroring what we can find of public data scrapes of data that has recently gone missing from federal sites or is likely to in the near future. The repos here include public data from CDC, NIH, and NOAA. Be warned that some of these repos are quite large!
Unofficial #PatchTuesday continues with Google Chrome: Stable Channel Update for Desktop
Chrome 133.0.6943.53 (Linux) and 133.0.6943.53/54( Windows, Mac) includes 12 security fixes, 3 are externally reported:
No mention of exploitation.
@SecurityWriter one time, a trillion years ago, i did an assessment for a biotech company here in san diego. they wanted me to spend a few days going after their fat client. it talked to a server and had something to do with creating mollecules.
it had, by design, the ability to squirt arbitrary bash/python/php/etc into its server end - by design.
i tried to explain how this could be abused but they said "Pff.. who would ever do that?!" and wrote me off outright.
then they went to cloud
In relation to parent toots above, see related press release from CISA: CISA Partners with ASDās ACSC, CCCS, NCSC-UK, and Other International and US Organizations to Release Guidance on Edge Devices
Foreign adversaries routinely exploit software vulnerabilities in network edge devices to infiltrate critical infrastructure networks and systems. The damage can be expensive, time-consuming, and reputationally catastrophic for public and private sector organizations. These guidance documents detail various considerations and strategies for a more secure and resilient network both before and after a compromise.
#infosec #cybersecurity #networksecurity #securitybestpractice #securebydesign
The results are in! We're proud to announce the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2024! https://portswigger.net/research/top-10-web-hacking-techniques-of-2024
NETGEAR did this earlier than #PatchTuesday on 01 February 2025 but here you go:
Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2024 https://portswigger.net/research/top-10-web-hacking-techniques-of-2024
#PatchTuesday continues with Zyxel: Zyxel security advisory for command injection and insecure default credentials vulnerabilities in certain legacy DSL CPE
Zyxel's security advisory confirms the existence of CVE-2024-40890, CVE-2024-40891, and CVE-2025-0890 affecting end-of-life DSL CPE products. While they link to GreyNoise's blog post, Zyxel does not acknowledge the fact that CVE-2024-40891 (8.8 high) post-auth command injection is a zero-day being exploited in the wild by a Mirai botnet variant. They reiterate that EoL products donāt receive further support and:
"we strongly recommend that users replace them with newer-generation products for optimal protection."
Note: DSL CPE likely stands for Digital Subscriber Line Customer-Premises Equipment cc: @fellows for more Patch Tuesday Madness.
#zyxel #vulnerability #cve #CVE_2024_40891 #zeroday #eitw #activeexploitation #mirai #botnet #infosec #cybersecurity
Claroty: Do the CONTEC CMS8000 Patient Monitors Contain a Chinese Backdoor? The Reality is More Complicated...
There was increased interest in healthcare industry's patient monitors after CISA warned on 31 January 2025 that Contec CMS8000 Contains a Backdoor. Claroty's Team82 actually previously investigated the firmware and reached the conclusion that it is most likely not a hidden backdoor, but instead an insecure/vulnerable design that introduces great risk to the patient monitor users and hospital networks. Their conclusion is mainly based on the fact that the vendorāand resellers who re-label and sell the monitorālist the IP address in their manuals and instruct users to configure the Central Management System (CMS) with this IP address within their internal networks. h/t: @bees; cc: @wdormann
Note: there's associated vulnerabilities:
#contec #backdoor #hph #hhs #vulnerability #cve #china #cisa #infosec #cybersecurity
CISA: CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
Hot off the press!:
#cisa #cisakev #kev #vulnerability #eitw #activeexploitation #infosec #cybersecurity #knownexploitedvulnerabilitiescatalog
Not that it surprises me, but the "National Cybersecurity Strategy" has disappeared:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/national-cybersecurity-strategy/
So yeah.
Archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250117195921/https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/national-cybersecurity-strategy/
There is still a couple more days to submit your 1-page article to Paged Out! #6!
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4 February 1917 | A Polish Jewish dancer Franciszka Mann was born. She was most probably the woman who on 23 October 1943, inside the undressing room of gas chamber II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, seized SS man Josef Schillingerās pistol, shot him & wounded SS man Wilhelm Emmerich.