Flaws in Ovarro TBox RTUs Could Open Industrial Systems to Remote Attacks

As many as five vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Ovarro’s TBox remote terminal units (RTUs) that, if left unpatched, could open the door for escalating attacks against critical infrastructures, like remote code execution and denial-of-service. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in remote code execution, which may cause a denial-of-service condition,” the U.S. Cybersecurity…

New Bugs Could Let Hackers Bypass Spectre Attack Mitigations On Linux Systems

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Discovered by Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter team, the flaws — tracked as CVE-2020-27170 and CVE-2020-27171 (CVSS scores: 5.5) —…