eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. Update and patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates and patches are released.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

Although governments and institutions are taking many steps towards securing the manufacturing of these critical devices (e.g., Secure Firmware Updates Are a Necessity for Resilient IoT Deployments. Enabling the high volume of wireless payments and transactions. Another concern is that IoT devices are not protected by design.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 13, 2019

Federal Government to meet strict information security standards. While it doesn’t set a federal standard for private sector firms, it does look to use the Federal Government’s purchasing power as a lever to force changes on the private sector. The proposed legislation is just the latest effort by lawmakers in Washington D.C.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Firmware attacks: Attackers target vulnerabilities in the simplified software that runs computer hard drives, printers, medical devices, and other Internet of Things (IoT) or operational technology (OT) devices to gain unauthorized access, control the devices, or use them as a launching pad for other attacks.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

WIENS: Yeah, so So Vector 35 grew out of a number of folks that were playing CTFs that were doing vulnerability research doing reverse engineering for government contracting purposes and then thought like, you know what, it'd be nice to see sunshine, have a window at her office, get outside, do more Hilton commercial. It is really exciting.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Lastly, the pump runs its own custom Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and firmware on a M32C microcontroller. Looking at the variable names inside the disposable data file and relevant code in the pump firmware led us to one key/value pair that specifies the “head volume” of the tube, which can be seen in the figure above.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And so I was always kind of into you know, wireless stuff. It's always seems kind of magical, I guess to people, you know, wireless transmission and everything else and how it works. A lot of embedded parts, some wireless aspects. For a long time I was working purely on analyzing the wireless network.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

And if that means a bad actor can create a wireless key for your new Tesla, that price is pretty steep. At CanSecWest 2022, researcher Martin Herfurt announced a new tool, TeslaKee.com , which he hopes prevents wireless key attacks from happening. With digital convenience there’s often a price. Very unlikely.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

The wireless village has been around for quite some time. These are issues that we need to address the inability or the reluctance to talk across communities or the private sector with government government with private sector. I have to look back and might be nine years now but we'll go we'll go with eight.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It requires technical innovation to mesh with supporting security standards and emerging government regulations much quicker and smoother than has ever happened in the Internet era. Wider availability of high-speed wireless networks, like 5G, and the continuing shift to robust cloud computing services, has helped, as well.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

You're really looking at a government agency from some some country who's politically motivated and who can afford to put the money and the time into building a threat like this and who has the insider information from a uranium enrichment facility that would facilitate building a threat? The wireless Bill has been around for quite some time.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While individuals are at risk, it’s organizations or even government facilities that cyber adversaries are mainly interested in. In the best case, all security or other IP cameras should be connected to a separate protected subnet with end-to-end encryption, or WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2), if the network is wireless.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? Vamosi: I want to restate the verb “educate” With infosec, there’s a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt or FUD within government. As Stuart Brand said back in 1984 “information wants to be free.”

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? Vamosi: I want to restate the verb “educate” With infosec, there’s a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt or FUD within government. As Stuart Brand said back in 1984 “information wants to be free.”

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