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Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co.,Ltd (Xiongmai), the Chinese manufacturer that made many of the devices left vulnerable to Mirai, is back with another vulnerability that puts millions of devices across the world at risk yet again. Continue reading Millions at risk from default webcam passwords
What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiong… Continue reading Naming & Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai
What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai — a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras. Continue reading Naming & Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai
Getting rid of hardcoded default passwords is not enough. There is a long way to go before we can feel confident that IoT devices have become significantly safer.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading California’s ban on weak default passwords isn’t going to fix IoT security
By Waqas
It is not happening on Dark Web but Instagram. Instagram has become much more than a platform to share your traveling, culinary, or fitness-related experiences, but a thriving portal for selling stolen accounts. Reportedly, hackers are using I… Continue reading Hackers illegally selling stolen Fortnite accounts & botnets on Instagram
The gaming and hacking communities overlap: Some of the hacker accounts are offering botnet access as well as Fortnite accounts. Continue reading Hacked Fortnite accounts and rent-a-botnet being pushed on Instagram
September 2018 started with a data breach bang, with British Airways disclosing a significant hack and data loss. 380,000 of the airlines’ website and mobile app customers had their debit and credit card details lifted via a maliciously injected s… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for September 2018
As hacking and gaming communities continue to intersect, some hackers are selling access to botnets and likely stolen Fortnite, Spotify, and other online accounts on Instagram. Continue reading Hackers Are Selling Botnets and Stolen ‘Fortnite’ Accounts Over Instagram
Researchers have discovered a new botnet called “Torii” which differentiates itself from Mirai by its use of several sophisticated tactics. Infosec expert @VessOnSecurity is the first to have discovered the new botnet: My honeypot just caug… Continue reading New “Torii” Botnet’s Sophisticated Techniques Set It Apart From Mirai
By Waqas
Mirai has been known as one of the most powerful botnets comprised of millions of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices including routers, digital video recorders (DVRs) and security cameras. Mirai was also used by hackers to carry out one o… Continue reading Hackers behind Mirai botnet to avoid jail for working with the FBI