The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2024

23, 2024 — Sternum, the pioneer in embedded IoT security and observability, today announced enhanced security for the ChargePoint Home Flex. ChargePoint, with its last firmware update, has disabled the HTTP server and updated the NTP client to address the issues. Tel Aviv, Israel – Jan.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2024

This doubles as your weekly reminder to check your IT vendors’ security bulletins regularly and patch every vulnerability as soon as you learn about it. Always prioritize creating a patch plan if your security teams haven’t developed a methodology already. This vulnerability affects natural language processing applications.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Fortinet warns that the recently discovered critical remote code execution flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN, tracked CVE-2024-21762, is being actively exploited. The security firm did not provide details about the attacks exploiting this vulnerability. The malware survives reboots and firmware upgrades. through 7.4.2 Upgrade to 7.4.3

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

shim is a small piece of code used by most Linux distributions in the boot process to support Secure Boot. It is frequently employed when either the bootloader or the operating system kernel lacks a signature recognized by the UEFI firmware. The flaw was discovered by Bill Demirkapi of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC).

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Hello 2024! 2024 Theme Refresh As for previous 20**.1 Kali Blog Recap Since our last release, we did the following blog posts : The great non-free-firmware transition Kali Linux DEI Promise Community Shout-Outs These are people from the public who have helped Kali and the team for the last release.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” In February 2024, a court order allowed US authorities to neutralize the Moobot botnet, a network of hundreds of small office/home office (SOHO) routers under the control of the Russia-linked group APT28. Upgrade to the latest firmware version. Additionally, the actors have strategically targeted many individuals in Ukraine.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Residential proxies also can refer to households protected by compromised home routers running factory-default credentials or outdated firmware. Proshutinskiy’s LinkedIn profile says he is a Class of 2024 student at TGM , which is a Christian mission school in Austria. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is no concrete method to follow as it will rely on contents of the decomposed design from Step 2, but typical examples might include the following: Intellectual property in the device firmware. Deploy malicious firmware. link] [link] Have a software/firmware update mechanism. Cryptographic keys on the device or pod.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

However, we decided not to update the toy immediately in order to explore what could be extracted from the older firmware version. ADB Activation We analyzed the configuration files contained in the firmware memory chip and found a setting called “ENABLE_ADB=N.” The ADB service is disabled.

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