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News alert: Sternum and ChargePoint collaborate to enhance ChargePoint Home Flex Security

The Last Watchdog

ChargePoint, with its last firmware update, has disabled the HTTP server and updated the NTP client to address the issues. As part of ChargePoint’s commitment to customer security, the company encourages researchers to collaborate with ChargePoint InfoSec to identify potential new vulnerabilities in its products or environment.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. ” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Kim Zetter’s book, Countdown to Zero Day, is perhaps the definitive book on the subject. The updates are done through firmware, firmware updates that we get from the vendor. Their security researchers know that maybe they have firmware or maybe they found a program or something somewhere.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: DEF CON turns 30 This year what began simply as a going away party for a coworker has since evolved over the decades into an annual summer tradition for InfoSec leaders in Las Vegas, which now includes other events such as besides Las Vegas, Diana is known as hackers summer camp. Again, all all around the InfoSec community.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Hacker Revolution Will Be Televised

ForAllSecure

Last year at Hacker Summer Camp I was invited to Mikko Hypponen’s book launch for If it’s Smart, It’s vulnerable. So if anyone can pull off turning CTFs into an eSport, it’s probably Jordan. VAMOSI: I am not a gamer. Everybody's building their own badges. It is really exciting.