Day: September 1, 2020

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission is under way and the premier space agency is aiming to liftoff next year. Ahead of the launch, ISRO is creating artificial Moon craters in Ullarthi Kavalu, Challakere, some 215km from Bengaluru. The Moon craters will play a vital role in tests for the Chandryaan-3 lander.

ISRO Creates Moon Craters

The Times of India reports sources citing the artificial Moon craters would be 10m in diameter and 3m in depth. “We’ve already called for tenders and the process of identifying a firm for all the civil works will be

Telecoms and data-center operators take note: attackers are actively trying to exploit a high-severity zeroday vulnerability in Cisco networking devices, the company warned over the weekend.

The security flaw resides in Cisco’s iOS XR Software, an operating system for carrier-grade routers and other networking devices used by telecommunications and data-center providers. In an advisory published on Saturday, the networking-gear manufacturer said that a patch is not yet available and provided no timeline for when one would be released.

Memory exhaustion

CVE-2020-3566, as the vulnerability is tracked, allows attackers to “cause memory exhaustion, resulting in instability of other processes”