Cybersecurity

Awareness training is a key organizational risk strategy component to create and maintain a culture of cybersecurity, all personnel should receive regular, ongoing cybersecurity awareness training. Likewise, technical IT and OT personnel should participate in advanced training, and include red team/blue team exercises to practice and reinforce cybersecurity defense concepts and strategies.

CISA has released an advisory on an information exposure vulnerability in Honeywell Performance IP Cameras and Performance NVRs. Numerous products and versions of the products are affected. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to view device configuration information. Honeywell has released firmware update packages for all affected products.  CISA also recommends a series of measures to mitigate the vulnerability. Read the advisory at CISA.

CISA has released an advisory on code injection, command injection, stack-based buffer overflow, and improper authorization vulnerabilities in Advantech WebAccess. Versions 8.4.1 and prior are affected. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, access files and perform actions at a privileged level, or delete files on the system. Advantech has released Version 8.4.2 of WebAccessNode to address the reported vulnerabilities. CISA also recommends a series of measures to mitigate the vulnerabilities.

MITRE has released the 2019 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors list. It is a compilation of the most frequent and critical errors that can lead to serious vulnerabilities in software. MITRE notes these weaknesses are often easy to find and exploit and are dangerous because they frequently allow adversaries to completely take over execution of software, steal data, or prevent the software from working. Access the list at MITRE.