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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com SocksEscort[.]com

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

So how hard is it to hack APIs? In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. I mean, how hard is it even to hack an API.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

So how hard is it to hack APIs? In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. I mean, how hard is it even to hack an API.

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Telehealth: A New Frontier in Medicine—and Security

SecureList

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. For the user, this means that if the wearable device is openly connected to the internet, then attackers can easily intercept the data it sends. As interest in IoT devices grows, so, too, does interest in MQTT—which is concerning from a security standpoint.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind, and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. And that's useful when you're hacking, that's what hackers need to be right they need to be creative. And they attack the problem differently. That said, hackers will be hackers.

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

ForAllSecure

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle.

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Easily Exploitable Linux Flaw Exposes All Distributions: Qualys

eSecurity Planet

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 , has “been hiding in plain sight” for more than 12 years and infects all versions of polkit’s pkexec since it was first developed in 2009, Bharat Jogi, director of vulnerability and threat research at Qualys, wrote in a blog post. In the Wake of Log4j.