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Vulnerabilities Affected Millions of Cisco Switches, Routers and devices

March 15, 2020April 16, 2020 Tech User

Critical Vulnerabilities Affected Millions of Cisco Switches, Routers, IP Phones and Cameras. Researchers discovered 5 critical zero-day vulnerabilities (dubbed CDPwn) in Cisco Discovery Protocol that are used in multiple Cisco products such as Routers, Switches, IP phones, Cameras and more. Cisco Discovery Protocol is also known as CDP is the Cisco proprietary Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) network protocol and is virtually implemented in Cisco products including switches, routers, IP phones, and cameras to discover the information about the Cisco equipment. Four of the five vulnerabilities are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that…

Critical Zoom Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Steal your Password

March 9, 2020April 16, 2020 Tech User

A critical vulnerability with the Zoom client for windows allows attackers to steal Windows login credentials.

Zoom is an online video communication platform that has features such as video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration.

Hackers Hack Routers’s DNS to Inject Malicious Covid-19 Apps

January 8, 2020April 16, 2020 Tech User

A new cyber attack is hijacking router’s DNS settings so that web browsers display alerts for a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization that is the Oski information-stealing malware. For the past five days, people have been reporting their web browser would open on its own and display a message prompting them to download a ‘COVID-19 Inform App’ that was allegedly from the World Health Organization (WHO). After further research, it was determined that these alerts were being caused by an attack that changed the DNS servers configured on their…