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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VxWorks and operating systems with similar vulnerabilities are the lightweight and powerful systems that drive many mission critical and specific-use devices. These devices range from perimeter-level ...

[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 ...

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wind River ®, a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, today announced expanded architecture support of its industry-leading ...

Wind River may be a subsidiary of Intel Corp., but it is not shirking in its support of multiple multicore processor vendors in the latest instantiation of the VxWorks RTOS. VxWorks 6.8 supports the ...