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ETERNALSILENCE – 270K+ devices vulnerable to UPnProxy Botnet build using NSA hacking tools

Security Affairs

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. Experts recommend users to install routers update and patched firmware to mitigate the threat. ” continues Akamai.

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Too much UPnP-enabled connected devices still vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security Affairs

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. ” Experts suggest disabling the UPnP feature if possible to prevent abuses and are uring users of running firmware up to date.

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A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web

Google Security

In 2019, the team responsible for V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine, published a blog post and whitepaper concluding that such attacks can’t be reliably mitigated at the software level. While the CPU state is rolled back once the misprediction is noticed, this behavior leaves observable side effects which can leak data to an attacker.

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Address Sanitizer for Bare-metal Firmware

Google Security

Posted by Eugene Rodionov and Ivan Lozano, Android Team With steady improvements to Android userspace and kernel security, we have noticed an increasing interest from security researchers directed towards lower level firmware. Despite the narrow application implied by its name, KASan is applicable to a wide-range of firmware targets.

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The Cybersecurity Executive Order: the first 120 days

Security Boulevard

As a result of this workshop, NIST released a whitepaper on June 25, 2021, “ Definition of Critical Software under the Executive Order (EO) 14028.”. Teams that account for attacker reachability can reduce open-source security tickets by 92%*. source, AppSec Shift Left Progress Report. source, AppSec Shift Left Progress Report.