Siemens Patches Critical Security Flaw in Certain Products
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Siemens has released patches for certain automation products that have a critical memory protection vulnerability, which attackers could exploit to run arbitrary code to access memory areas, enabling them to read sensitive data and use it to launch further attacks, according to a company advisory.
The alert notes the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-15782, is ranked 8.1 - which is highly critical. It affects seven products in the Siemens automation product series SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 CPU.
The company released updates for the affected products and has urged customers to immediately implement the patches. Siemens is preparing further updates and recommends specific countermeasures for products where updates are not yet available, the company states.
Scams and frauds are often as creative as they are crooked, and the latest string of Social Security scams that has been sweeping the nation is yet another example of this. Like most scammers, the perpetrators are either looking to get cash before hanging up the phone, or are hoping to harvest personal information for a more elaborate scam at a later date.
Hang up, that’s not Social Security calling to threaten you
The Social Security media scam is fear-driven, and often marked by meticulousness. The scammers will phone or contact the victim, posing as a Social Security agent and informing them that their Social Security account has been compromised. The fraudsters know their way around technology, and are able to spoof the caller ID to make it look as if the call is coming from Washington, D.C.. Sometimes they will also present an agent’s badge or other information to persuade the respondent of their legitimacy.
Auckland is not among the regions advised to evacuate following a tsunami Watch Alert issued for Norfolk Island after three earthquakes struck off New Zealand’s north-eastern coast early this morning.
The most powerful was a magnitude 8.0 quake near the remote Kermadec Islands.
Auckland residents were however advised to stay off the beach and out of the water.