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P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices

Krebs on Security

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found.

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MY TAKE: ‘Digital trust’ has a huge role to play mitigating cybersecurity threats, going forward

The Last Watchdog

Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures. It used to be that trusting the connection between a workstation and a mainframe computer was the main concern. I had the chance to talk about DigiCert’s perspective with Jason Sabin, DigiCert’s Chief Technology Officer. Here are a few key takeaways. Trust under siege.

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Future Proofing Tech Investments in Turbulent Times: Real Stories

Jane Frankland

This includes everything from productivity and cybersecurity to superior computing experiences for employees, who are increasingly collaborating remotely, multitasking, and placing strain on applications competing for computing resources.

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Ransomware Detection at Chip Level? Yes, Says Intel

SecureWorld News

This is possible, the company says, because of improvements to its Hardware Shield product and more powerful Threat Detection Technology (TDT). Intel's Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology. Bleeping Computer covered Intel's recent addition coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

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Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety

Google Security

In Android, which runs on billions of devices and is one of our most critical platforms, we've already made strides in adopting MSLs, including Rust, in sections of our network, firmware and graphics stacks. We have allocated a portion of our computing resources specifically to bounds-checking the C++ standard library across our workloads.

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Naming & Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai

Krebs on Security

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. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co.,

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IT threat evolution Q1 2024

SecureList

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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