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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

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In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors.

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APT trends report Q1 2022

SecureList

While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on macOS and Windows operating systems.

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