Critical Remote Code Execution (CVE-2018-0171) Vulnerability in “Cisco Smart Install” of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Leaves Hundreds of Thousands of Network Switches Open to Hackers.

HTTP v1, v1.1 and v2 have all used TCP because it’s been the most efficient way to incorporate reliability, order and error-checking into Internet Protocol (IP). In this case, reliability refers to the server’s ability to check if any data…

Though not a new attack, it is not very widely known outside of the security research community that a malicious JavaScript hosted on the public Internet can attack the internal network. Since a