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Mirai V3G4 botnet exploits 13 flaws to target IoT devices

Security Affairs

During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022.

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Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge

SC Magazine

As critical infrastructure facilities increasingly converge their IT and OT systems, visibility into traditionally isolated operational systems is turning into a key security challenge. Recognizing that the ABCWUA is “ahead of a lot of the water authorities” across the U.S.

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We infiltrated an IRC botnet. Here’s what we found

Security Affairs

When targeted by a threat actor, the honeypot system uses their intrusion attempt to gain valuable information about the attacker. In order to capture malware and monitor cyberattacks across the internet in real-time, we run multiple honeypot systems that are contained in isolated execution environments, otherwise known as containers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So in this episode, we're going to be talking a lot about Capture the Flag, not the children's game of course, but the information security game, we're going to talk about the Jeopardy style CTF, which like the TV game show has six categories of questions, with varying degrees of difficulty. We have people working on AI.

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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch

Troy Hunt

I've been involved with a bunch of really poorly implemented "Internet of Things" things in the past that presented serious privacy risks to those who used them. Not to mention the various spyware apps often installed on kids' phones to track them which then subsequently leak their data all over the internet. mSpy leaked data.

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Top Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2022

eSecurity Planet

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. SpiderSilk offers an impressive proprietary internet scanner that maps out a company’s assets and network attack surface to detect vulnerabilities. Strata Identity.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about our right to repair, how some high tech companies might want to limit that right, and how there’s a group of information security professionals who are volunteering their free time to fight for those rights in local legislation.

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