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Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters

Schneier on Security

This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story , this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional bicycle races like the Tour de France, which provides an incentive to actually implement this attack. Research paper. Another news story. Slashdot thread.

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Fortinet warns about Critical flaw in Wireless LAN Manager FortiWLM

Security Affairs

Fortinet warned of a now-patched Wireless LAN Manager (FortiWLM) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34990 (CVSS score of 9.6), that could lead to admin access and sensitive information disclosure. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,FortiWLM)

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Amazon Delivery Drivers Hacking Scheduling System

Schneier on Security

The perpetrators likely dangle multiple phones in the trees to spread the work around to multiple Amazon Flex accounts and avoid detection by Amazon, said Chetan Sharma, a wireless industry consultant. If all the routes were fed through one device, it would be easy for Amazon to detect, he said. ”

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Hacking Construction Cranes

Schneier on Security

Construction cranes are vulnerable to hacking: In our research and vulnerability discoveries, we found that weaknesses in the controllers can be (easily) taken advantage of to move full-sized machines such as cranes used in construction sites and factories.

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Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims

Krebs on Security

men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. conspired to hack into Yahoo email accounts belonging to victims in the United States.

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Want to Win a Bike Race? Hack Your Rival’s Wireless Shifters

WIRED Threat Level

Researchers have discovered a way that would allow anyone with a few hundred dollars to hack into a wireless gear-shifting systems used by the top cycling teams for events like the Tour de France.

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Sierra Wireless halted production at its manufacturing sites due to ransomware attack

Security Affairs

This week, IoT company Sierra Wireless disclosed a ransomware attack that hit its internal IT systems on March 20 and disrupted its production. Sierra Wireless is a Canadian multinational wireless communications equipment designer and manufacturer headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. continues the announcement.

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