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Industrial Switches from different Vendors Impaired by Similar Exposures

Hacker Combat

Industrial switches are made using universal firmware developed by Korenix Technology, a leading provider for industrial networking solutions based in Taiwan. Korenix has developed another firmware that the organization incorporates in its JetNet industrial switches. Malicious firmware and bootloader uploads are possible too.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

SecureList

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. It also includes a Bitcoin wallet stealing module.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. It was all this discovery on the internet that brought me to it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

But also war over the internet. The updates are done through firmware, firmware updates that we get from the vendor. It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever. They spent that time researching and understanding the environment. Physical war.

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Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021

Security Boulevard

From IoT devices to internet-based services, the security of countless devices and web-based services' are dependant upon a secure Linux account privilege model. The energy firm did not say how many accounts were affected by the breach, which was first reported by MoneySavingExpert.com. Npower App Hack. Total Fitness Ransomware Attack.