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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. Because there’s no way of knowing that there’s an anomaly if you have no clue what normal even looks like,” explained Sanders.

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

Security Affairs

We investigated the file and determined that the malicious program used by the attackers was likely created back in 2012 by the w0rmer Security Team, a now seemingly defunct hacker team that was linked to the infamous hacktivist group Anonymous. IoT devices, a very large botnet by today’s standards. An abrupt ending.

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SBOMs: Securing the Software Supply Chain

eSecurity Planet

ISO/IEC 19770-2 was confirmed in 2012 and updated in 2015. Read more: Attackers Exploit Flaw that Could Impact Millions of Routers, IoT Devices. Like software asset management (SAM), SWID Tags can help automate patch management , software integrity validation, vulnerability detection, and allowing or blocking software installations.

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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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

And, there’s thirty more villages including Girls Hack Village, the Voting Machine Hacking village, the IoT Village, and the Bio Hacking village. Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. In my you know 1011 Oh man even more than that 2012 1415 years now.

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

Troy Hunt

Certainly not the current gen XS, does that resolution put it back in about the iPhone 5 era from 2012? Obviously you want to remove the risk ASAP, but you also want to make sure that information about how to exploit it isn't made public beforehand.

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