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MY TAKE: Why locking down ‘firmware’ has now become the next big cybersecurity challenge

The Last Watchdog

Locking down firmware. These are the carriers that provide Internet access to rural areas all across America. Firmware is the coding that’s embedded below the software layer on all computing devices, ranging from printers to hard drives and motherboards to routers and switches. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei.

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SHARED INTEL: How ‘memory attacks’ and ‘firmware spoilage’ circumvent perimeter defenses

The Last Watchdog

Related: Ransomware remains a scourge The former has been accused of placing hidden backdoors in the firmware of equipment distributed to smaller telecom companies all across the U.S. percent from 2018. Firmware is on everything from hard drives, motherboards and routers to office printers and smart medical devices.

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Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature

Security Affairs

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. The flaws reside in a feature named the “XMEye P2P Cloud” that is enabled by default which is used to connect surveillance devices to the cloud infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Guardzilla Security Video System Footage exposed online

Security Affairs

A vulnerability in the Guardzilla home video surveillance system could be exploited by users to watch Guardzilla footage of other users. The Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System is an indoor video surveillance solution. This was determined through static analysis of the firmware shipping with the device.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 180 – News of the week

Security Affairs

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Experts discloses dangerous flaws in robotic Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums

Security Affairs

Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. The two vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2018-10987 and CVE-2018-10988 , the former could be exploited by a remote attacker meanwhile the latter needs physical access to the device.

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Expert found Russia’s SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data

Security Affairs

A Russian security researcher has found that hardware wiretapping equipment composing Russia’s SORM surveillance system had been leaking user data. SORM is a mass surveillance system that allows the Government of Moscow to track online activities of single individuals thanks to the support of the Russian ISPs. Pierluigi Paganini.