Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

Last year the same group of experts at Positive Technologies discovered an undocumented configuration setting that disabled the Intel Management Engine. The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked Intel to provide a way to disable the IME. The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked Intel to provide a way to disable the IME.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

The attackers were able to bypass this hardware-based security protection using another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs (System on a Chip): they did this by writing the data, destination address and data hash to unknown hardware registers of the chip that are not used by the firmware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It is no secret that security plays a very important part in the successful deployment and management of this technology, and its applications are set to transform the way we live and do business. What is the biggest security challenge facing the growing IoT? To do this at scale, a public key infrastructure (PKI) is required.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2021

.” Some members of the WiFi Alliance, the wireless industry organization that promotes wireless technologies and owns the trademark, may even have encouraged this misconception. technology” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. technology” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. How does WiFi work?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The result has been devices with trivial vulnerabilities or flaws that have been solved for a decade or longer in traditional computing. New vulnerabilities are created every day by cybercriminals, leading to many IoT devices being installed with out-of-date firmware and other exploitable vulnerabilities.”. Bambenek agreed.

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of interconnected electronic devices with “smart” technology. As computer software becomes increasingly software and resistant to malicious attacks, hackers are turning to the new generation of smart devices as an easier option, often with great success.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m discussing the weird science of how the physics of light and sound --not keyboards or code -- can be used to compromise electronic devices and the consequences of that in the real world. Bleeding-Edge Testing for Bleeding-Edge Technology. Learn More Request Demo.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m discussing the weird science of how the physics of light and sound --not keyboards or code -- can be used to compromise electronic devices and the consequences of that in the real world. Vamosi: So how did we get here? How one even start to think about these kinds of attacks?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m discussing the weird science of how the physics of light and sound --not keyboards or code -- can be used to compromise electronic devices and the consequences of that in the real world. Vamosi: So how did we get here? How one even start to think about these kinds of attacks?

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no concrete method to follow as it will rely on contents of the decomposed design from Step 2, but typical examples might include the following: Intellectual property in the device firmware. Deploy malicious firmware. link] [link] Have a software/firmware update mechanism. Cryptographic keys on the device or pod.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

From the 1960’s to 2000 infusion pumps were mostly electromechanical devices with some embedded electronics, but the turn of the century delivered “smarter” devices with better safety mechanisms and the possibility to program them, which slowly opened the door to information security challenges. Figure 6: Disposable Data.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

The supply chain, already stretched to a breaking point, suffered additional misfortunes across multiple industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to technology and utilities. However, in a clear bid for the supply chain jugular, threat actors also zeroed in on manufacturing, technology, utilities (including oil), and agriculture.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Anyone who has used a computer for any significant length of time has probably at least heard of malware. Whenever a user uses the infected file, it gives the attacker access to their computer. Bootkits: This type of rootkit targets a computer’s bootloader, the software responsible for loading the computer’s OS into RAM upon startup.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

I had the chance to discuss this at length with Thomas Rosteck , Division President of Connected Secure Systems (CSS) at Infineon Technologies. We met at Infineon’s OktoberTech™ Silicon Valley 2024 conference , which I had the privilege of attending recently at the Computer History Museum. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And now it was like how can I contribute back to Tibet and put material out and help other people maybe join in the same way I did by not traditional means like, it wasn't really college or anything that got me into electronics. And so this is purely because I like to be kind of in the weeds on technology and things like that.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It directly affected satellite modems firmwares , but was still to be understood as of mid-March. Obviously, one cannot totally rule out the possibility of political pressure being applied to weaponize products, technologies, and services of some minor market players. Key insights.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

There is other ones such as the car hacking village and stuff but so the the API says village started several years ago at DEF CON to bring education awareness and exposure to industrial control systems technology security. We do international events now and expose people to control systems to the technology to security.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. It also dominates the $1 billion market for boards used in special-purpose computers, from MRI machines to weapons systems. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.

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