Introduction IoT devices are faced with a great security challenge and their security appears particularly important. On one hand, though IoT devices have had a long existence, legacy IoT devices and their application protocols contain a variety of vulnerabilities due to the ill-conceived security design. On the other hand, as noted in the analysis of […]

Overview On January 12, 2021, local time, Adobe officially released January’s security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in its various products, including Adobe Bridge, Adobe Captivate, Adobe InCopy, Adobe Campaign, Classic,Adobe Animate, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. For details about the security bulletins and advisories, visit the following link:

Current mainstream consortium blockchain platforms include Hyperledger, Quorum, and R3 Corda, which are described in detail in the following sections.

1. Background In early 2020, the US Department of Defense (DOD) released the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Classification (CMMC). On average, the USA loses USD 600 billion a year to adversaries in the cyberspace. Currently, the DOD has about 300,000 contractors, covering a variety of fields from hypersonic weapons to leather factories. Of all these contractors, […]

1. Background On cyberspace battlefields, adversaries often lurk in the darkness, but will jump at the throat of victims whenever spotting a chance. Today, extensive collection of huge amounts of data from various dimensions is nothing new. This can be very useful for security defenses, but at the same time brings unprecedented challenges to security […]

This chapter describes the characteristics, usage scenarios, and architecture of enterprise blockchains, and illustrates three major enterprise blockchain systems in three separate sections.

Overview Microsoft released January 2021 security updates on Tuesday which fix 83 vulnerabilities ranging from simple spoofing attacks to remote code execution in various products, including .NET Repository, ASP.NET core & .NET core, Azure Active Directory Pod Identity, Microsoft Bluetooth Driver, Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder, Microsoft Edge (HTML-based), Microsoft Graphics Component, Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, […]

Overview On January 20, 2021, NSFOCUS detected that Oracle released the January 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixed 329 vulnerabilities of varying risk levels. This CPU involves multiple commonly used products, such as Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Database Server, Oracle Java SE, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle MySQL, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Systems. Oracle […]

Background To facilitate debugging and analysis by developers, a lot of master computer configuration software often comes with a simulator that simulates a real programmable logic controller (PLC) or human-machine interface (HMI) device. Such simulators exchange data with master computer configuration software through TCP/IP and therefore some will listen on a designated port which is […]

Vulnerability Description On January 20, 2021, NSFOCUS detected that Oracle released the January 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixed 329 vulnerabilities of varying risk levels. Seven of these vulnerabilities are severe and assigned CVE-2021-1994, CVE-2021-2047, CVE-2021-2064, CVE-2021-2108, CVE-2021-2075, CVE-2019-17195, and CVE-2020-14756. Unauthenticated attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute code remotely. These vulnerabilities are […]