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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

IoT devices (routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components) multiply every year. The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Telnet, the overwhelmingly popular unencrypted IoT text protocol, is the main target of brute-forcing.

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News Alert: Nuvoton underscores its commitment to 8-bit MCU production sustainability

The Last Watchdog

Nuvoton was spun-off as a Winbond Electronics affiliate in July 2008 and went public in September 2010 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE).

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. com shows that in 2008 it displayed the personal information for a Dmitry Starovikov , who listed his Skype username as “lycefer.” ru , and the website web-site[.]ru

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Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems

Security Boulevard

It’s been going on since at least 2008. Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: China’s exploitation of products made by Supermicro, as the U.S.

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

And the risk factors will only rise exponentially as reliance on cloud infrastructure and Internet of Things (IoT) systems accelerates. It wasn’t until 2008, after decades of theorizing, that an IBM researcher name Craig Gentry came up with a viable mathematical solution to do this.

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Extreme Networks ExtremeControl: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Users, guests and internet-of-things (IoT) devices can be located, on-boarded, authenticated, and evaluated for compliance. The ExtremeControl Assessment Agent requires minimum hardware capabilities for Windows and macOS: WIndows Versions: Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, 7, 8, 8.1,

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova. SSC asked fellow forum members for help in testing the security of a website they claimed was theirs: myiptest[.]com com , which promised to tell visitors whether their proxy address was included on any security or anti-spam block lists. DomainTools says myiptest[.]com

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