CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

To address this threat, organizations of all sizes while conducting a risk assessment need to take into account the vulnerabilities of all third-party software or firmware. Now, rapid advancements in social engineering and easy-to-use deep fake technology are enabling attackers to trick more users into falling for their schemes.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

United Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). UEFI is a specification for the firmware that controls the first stages of booting up a computer, before the operating system is loaded. (It’s Windows 11 comes ready to embrace the impressively-named Pluton TPM architecture.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Such hackers don’t bother with social engineering or complex scenarios that only give a low success rate. It can even attack the chip’s firmware and provide root access on the device, which gives more privileges and capabilities than the user. They already have backdoors. It exposes valuable data to be used by applications.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There is no need for social engineering , as the program can implant backdoors directly without forced consent. It can even access the chip’s firmware to gain root access on the device, a significant privilege escalation. Zero-click attacks remove this hurdle.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Wireless firmware has been updated, and Magisk firmware flashing is now patched. rizin-cutter - reverse engineering platform powered by rizin This is new tools, there are numerous updates to existing tools. Pinebook Pro images have firmware to support the new wireless card on more recent models.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As a reminder, virtual machines on Apple Silicon are still limited to arm64 architecture only. From Kali’s side, the new window theme for KDE is now based on the source code of the breeze theme instead of using the Aurorae theme engine. Raspberry Pi images now include versioned Nexmon firmware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Why It Matters Network segmentation is a powerful approach for mitigating potential threats and ensuring a safe, well-organized network architecture. Automate Patches and Updates Ensure strong network security by automating regular updates of firewall firmware and installing security patches as soon as they become available.

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