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Content tagged with Cloud posted in October 2011
California Tightens EHR Security
News  |  10/27/2011  | 
New law requires that everyone leave breadcrumbs when using an electronic health record; related law expands telemed services.
NSA Chief Plays Offense on Cloud, Cybersecurity
News  |  10/20/2011  | 
Cloud has become a key part of the NSA's IT strategy, said Gen. Keith Alexander. Coming soon: A DOD offensive strategy for responses to cyberattacks and threats.
Feds: Cloud Computing Doesn't Increase Security Risk
News  |  10/6/2011  | 
Administration officials tell Congress cloud security problems are no worse than other IT risks.
Military Health Plan Data Breach Threatens 4.9 Million
News  |  10/4/2011  | 
Tricare says lost backup tapes fall under FTC jurisdiction, not HIPAA, so only offers 90 days of fraud protection.


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CVE-2021-21257
PUBLISHED: 2021-06-18
Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for internet of things devices. The RPL-Classic and RPL-Lite implementations in the Contiki-NG operating system versions prior to 4.6 do not validate the address pointer in the RPL source routing header This makes it possible for an attac...
CVE-2021-21279
PUBLISHED: 2021-06-18
Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for internet of things devices. In verions prior to 4.6, an attacker can perform a denial-of-service attack by triggering an infinite loop in the processing of IPv6 neighbor solicitation (NS) messages. This type of attack can effectively ...
CVE-2021-21280
PUBLISHED: 2021-06-18
Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for internet of things devices. It is possible to cause an out-of-bounds write in versions of Contiki-NG prior to 4.6 when transmitting a 6LoWPAN packet with a chain of extension headers. Unfortunately, the written header is not checked t...
CVE-2021-21281
PUBLISHED: 2021-06-18
Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for internet of things devices. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Contiki-NG versions prior to 4.6. After establishing a TCP socket using the tcp-socket library, it is possible for the remote end to send a packet with a data offse...
CVE-2021-21410
PUBLISHED: 2021-06-18
Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for Next-Generation IoT devices. An out-of-bounds read can be triggered by 6LoWPAN packets sent to devices running Contiki-NG 4.6 and prior. The IPv6 header decompression function (<code>uncompress_hdr_iphc</code>) does not pe...