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Hundreds of thousands of routers exposed to Eternal Silence campaign via UPnP?

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 installing routers update and patched firmware to mitigate the threat.

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

Google Security

Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. It quickly became clear that flaws in modern processors undermined the guarantees that web browsers could make about preventing data leaks between applications.