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21 Mar 2017

Cisco finds 0-Day in CIA dump affecting over 300 network switch models

Cisco is warning of a new critical zero-day IOS / IOS XE vulnerability that affects more than 300 of its switch models. The company identified this highest level of vulnerability in its product while analyzing "Vault 7" — a roughly 8,761 documents and files leaked by Wikileaks last week.

The vulnerability resides in the CMP processing code in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software. If exploited, the flaw could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reboot of an affected device or remotely execute malicious code on the device with elevated privileges to take full control of the device.

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The Hacker News
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8 Nov 2016

Cisco job applicants warned of potential mobile site data leak

Users of Cisco's Professional Careers mobile site, mjobs.cisco.com, have been warned of a potential leak of their data, which the networking giant is pinning on an incorrect security setting.

"Cisco's investigation found this to be the result of an incorrect security setting following system maintenance on a third-party's website," the company said in its advisory. "Upon learning this, the setting was immediately corrected and user passwords to the site were reset." The setting was found to be in place between August and September 2015, and July and August 2016, the company said.

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ZDNet
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21 Sep 2016

Cisco finds new zero-day exploit linked to NSA hackers

Network equipment vendor Cisco is finally warning its customers of another zero-day vulnerability the company discovered in the trove of NSA's hacking exploits and implants leaked by the group calling itself "The Shadow Brokers."

Last month, the Shadow Brokers published firewall exploits, implants, and hacking tools allegedly stolen from the NSA's Equation Group, which was designed to target major vendors including, Cisco, Juniper, and Fortinet. Cisco analyzed the exploit and noted that it had not identified any new flaws related to this exploit in its current products.

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The Hacker News
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9 Sep 2015

Yandex.Navigator mobile app is spying on users

After different errors made by Yandex employees, the mobile app Yandex.Navigator for Android started recording all sounds to a file. The error appeared while creating a new version of the application with Yandex.Navigator voice activation by Yandex commands.

Earlier to give the application voice command (to construct a route or find an address), each user had to click the special button. Before the release the company's employees have taken a debug version of the application by mistake for the final testing. The beta testing version recorded all the sounds to the memory card in order to understand how the voice recognition system worked.

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VC
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18 May 2014

Cisco boss calls on Obama to rein in surveillance

Cisco’s chief executive has written to President Barack Obama warning of a collapse of trust in US technology after evidence emerged showing the National Security Agency breaking into his company’s equipment.

In a letter John Chambers called for “standards of conduct” to rein in government surveillance so that national security objectives do not interfere with the US’s leading position in the global technology market. The letter was dated the day after pictures circulated on the internet showing NSA staff opening boxes of Cisco gear so that the US security agency can monitor internet traffic after the equipment has been shipped to customers. Mr Chambers complained that the NSA actions would undermine confidence among customers of US technology firms.

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Obama data protection NSA USA Cisco Snowden
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The Financial Times
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Axarhöfði 14,
110 Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland - 2015