Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2020

Chinese researchers discovered tens of vulnerabilities in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, including issues that can be exploited to remotely hack it. A team of Chinese experts from Sky-Go, the Qihoo 360 division focused on car hacking, discovered 19 vulnerabilities in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, including some issues that can be exploited by attackers to remotely hack a vehicle.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 8, 2020

Three fundamental technologies -- chatbots, audio fakes, and deepfake videos -- have improved to the point that creating digital, real-time clones of people is merely a matter of integrating the systems.

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Technology 141

Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2020

According to the FBI, Iranian hackers are actively attempting to exploit an unauthenticated RCE flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, in F5 Big-IP ADC devices. The FBI is warning of Iranian hackers actively attempting to exploit an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw ( CVE-2020-5902 ) affecting F5 Big-IP application delivery controller (ADC) devices.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 8, 2020

Plus: A Canon ransomware hack, a nasty Twitter bug, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2020

Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Qualcomm and MediaTek are impacted by vulnerabilities similar to the Kr00k issue disclosed early this year. Earlier this year, experts from ESET disclosed the Kr00k , a new high-severity hardware vulnerability, that affects Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress. The Kr00k vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15126, could be exploited by nearby remote attackers to intercept and decrypt some wireless network packets transmitted over-the-air by a vulnerable devi

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 8, 2020

The leak contains information that the company makes available to partners and customers under NDA. A researcher says it came from a breach.

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