Collaborate Disseminate
Following on the heels of a fortunately not real DDoS botnet composed of electric toothbrushes, [Aaron Christophel] got his hands on a sort-of-electric toothbrush which could totally be exploited for …read more Continue reading Hacking an Actual WiFi Toothbrush With An ESP32-C3
Linux has a shim problem. Which naturally leads to a reasonable question: What’s a shim, and why do we need it? The answer: Making Linux work wit Secure Boot, and …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Broken Shims, LassPass, and Toothbrushes?
We thought it was all over… but a Swiss newspaper has come out fighting, blaming Fortinet for spreading untruths about a toothbrush botnet.
Will Fortinet return for Round 4, or is this a knockout punch? Continue reading Round 3 in the toothbrush DDoS debacle!
After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now issued a statement. Continue reading Tooth be told: Toothbrush DDoS attack claim was lost in translation, says Fortinet
No, three million smart toothbrushes didn’t launch a DDoS attack against a Swiss company. Continue reading The toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads in the cybersecurity world
Andy Cuthbertson reports: Hackers have infected millions of smart toothbrushes with malware in order to carry out a massive cyber attack against a Swiss company, according to reports. The internet-connected toothbrushes were linked together in somethin… Continue reading Millions of hacked toothbrushes used in Swiss cyber attack (1)
We always enjoy a project that transforms some common object into something useful for us. [Modelkitsdeluxe] fits the bill by modifying a power toothbrush into a miniature sander. If you …read more Continue reading It’s a Sander! No, It’s a Toothbrush! Relax, Relax, It’s Both
Polish those pearly whites with these reliable, top-rated, and high-tech brushes from Oral-B, Waterpik, and beyond. Continue reading The Best Electric Toothbrushes, ‘Cause Veneers Are Expensive
If you could dump the flash from your smart toothbrush and reverse engineer it, enabling you to play whatever you wanted on the vibrating motor, what would you do? Of …read more Continue reading Sniffing Passwords, Rickrolling Toothbrushes
Typically, when we want to build something with a DC motor, we might grab a bunch of AAs, or a single lithium cell at the very least. Electric toothbrushes often …read more Continue reading Toothbrush Speed Controller Secrets Revealed