Almost a dozen serious vulnerabilities have been sitting for the past 13 years in the VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) used to power mission-critical embedded devices. Built and maintained by ...

When major vulnerabilities show up in ubiquitous operating systems like Microsoft Windows, they can be weaponized and exploited, the fallout potentially impacting millions of devices. Today, ...

Wind River's VxWorks 6.9 now supports 64-bit platforms. VxWorks is one of the best know real time operating systems (RTOS) around. It provides a wide range of services (Fig. 1) also found in the ...

The VxWorks vulnerabilities recently announced in Las Vegas during the BSides and Defcon security conferences have opened a can of worms for hundreds of vendors, and even more consumers and companies ...

Researchers have found 11 serious vulnerabilities in VxWorks, the world’s most popular real-time operating system (RTOS) that powers over 2 billion devices including enterprise network firewalls and ...

[Avionics Magazine 05-11-2016] Wind River recently announced its VxWorks 653 Real Time Operating System (RTOS) platform is powering the multi-function display, flight management and autopilot for ...

If you haven't started scanning your network for UDP port 17185, then you better start now. This past week at BSides Las Vegas and Defcon, HD Moore, CSO of Rapid7 and Metasploit chief architect for ...

Wind River Systems has updated its widely-sed VxWorks embedded real-time operating system to make it ready for use on impending “Internet of things” systems. “Stand-alone devices that are running ...