A note to our readers....The following is a blog post our organization was withholding while privately warning companies about a set of critical IPMI vulnerabilities in their rack mount hardware and the threat they posed to their security posture. Some of the content was covered in a B-Sides San Antonio talk two months ago by one of our researchers.Today the full-scope of this threat was...

Follow us on Twitter! Severity--------High Date Discovered---------------March 19, 2013 Discovered By-------------Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research TeamCredit: Dennis Lavrinenko, Bobby Lockett, and r@b13$ 1. Actuate 'ActuateJavaComponent' Arbitrary File Retrieval Vulnerability Description-------------------------Actuate 10 contains a vulnerability within the 'ActuateJavaComponent'. This...

DDIVRT-2013-50 EverFocus EPARA264-16X1 Directory TraversalFollow us on Twitter! Title-----DDIVRT-2013-50 EverFocus EPARA264-16X1 Directory Traversal Severity--------High Date Discovered---------------January 22, 2013 Discovered By-------------Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research TeamCredit: r@b13$ Vulnerability Description-------------------------The EverFocus EPARA264-16X1 DVR allows...

DDIVRT-2012-48 VMware View Connection Server Directory Traversal (CVE-2012-5978)Follow us on Twitter!Severity--------HighDate Discovered---------------September 26, 2012Discovered By-------------Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research TeamCredit: r@b13$Vulnerability Description-------------------------The tunnel-server component of the VMware View Connection Server fails to ensure that each...

The modern CIO needs to be ahead of the game – anticipating the business’s needs and being able to meet them as they arise. All too often, however, the IT function is caught on the back foot, reacting to events after they’ve happened.