Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Enhance your security posture by detecting risks on authenticator devices. We frequently hear from IT security professionals that “the risk associated with the mobile device is something we care about. SafeNet Trusted Access can detect risks on devices equipped with the SafeNet MobilePASS+ authenticator app.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Enhance your security posture by detecting risks on authenticator devices. We frequently hear from IT security professionals that “the risk associated with the mobile device is something we care about. SafeNet Trusted Access can detect risks on devices equipped with the SafeNet MobilePASS+ authenticator app.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 What is more, the overwhelming majority of internet-facing cameras are manufactured by Chinese companies. Most of the public-facing cameras we discovered are manufactured by the Chinese company Hikvision: the Cybernews research team found over 3.37

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 10, 2018

Android smartphones from Asus, LG, Essential, and ZTE are the focus of a new analysis about risks from firmware bugs introduced by manufacturers and carriers.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The European Union is poised to place more demands on manufacturers to design greater security into their wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Manufacturers will be required to adhere to the new cybersecurity safeguards when designing and producing these products. percent over the same period in 2020, with 313.2

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Requirements also included that the firmware was to be signed by the manufacturer and verified by the pacemaker.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

could put operational technology (OT) infrastructure at risk of attacks, such as remote code execution (RCE) and denial of service (DoS).” Check with the device manufacturers for available patches and update the device firmware to version to 3.5.19.0 ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

reads the advisory The vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow issue and according to the vendor it may have been exploited in a limited number of attacks aimed at government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. states the report published by Fortinet. “Our states the report published by Fortinet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And IoT devices often don’t have the firmware to install antivirus software or other protective tools. Thermostats In January, Bitdefender released a notice about a Bosch thermostat — the BCC100 — that had a firmware vulnerability. Some vulnerability management or XDR suites will support IoT devices as well as other systems.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2020

A flaw, dubbed Cable Haunt, in Broadcom’s cable modem firmware exposed as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe alone, at risk of remote hijackings. Hundreds of millions of Broadcom-based cable modems are at risk of remote hijacking due to the presence of a vulnerability dubbed Cable Haunt, CVE-2019-19494.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2022

Two of these vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-31805 and CVE-2022-31806, have been rated critical (CVSS scores: 9.8), 7 as high risk, and 2 as medium risk. However, many vendors who use CODESYS V2 runtime have not yet updated in time, in which case factories using these affected products are still in serious risk.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality. Device Security is Hard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This analysis from Dirk Schrader, Vice President of Security Research, and Michael Paye, Vice President of Research and Development, is based on Netwrix’s global experience across a wide range of verticals, including technology, finance, manufacturing, government and healthcare. Understaffing will increase the role of channel partners.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The researchers analyzed the firmware and set up a 2G base station in order to intercept and analyze the devices’ communications. Itel it2160 – The device was spotted transferring some info to the domain asv.transsion.com (Country, Model, Firmware version, Language. And the manufacturer if you find any incomprehensible activity.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

This vulnerability management policy defines the requirements for the [eSecurity Planet] IT and security teams to protect company resources from unacceptable risk from unknown and known vulnerabilities. Broader is always better to control risks, but can be more costly.] Vulnerability Management Policy & Procedure A.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2022

This, however, is not the only risk factor for users.” The experts noticed that all the devices were copycats of famous brand-name models, their names are consonant with the names of some of the models produced by popular manufacturers. ” reads the post published by Doctor Web. Android 4.4.2 ” concludes Dr.Web.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty published its third Biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report that analyzes the vulnerability landscape relevant to leading automation products used across the ICS domain. Of the vulnerabilities with no, or partial, remediation, 61.96% were found in firmware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We're joined by Terry Dunlap the co-founder of ReFirm Labs to talk about why software supply chain risks. We’re joined by Terry Dunlap the co-founder of ReFirm Labs to talk about why software supply chain risks are real -and growing. Terry is a former NSA employee who specializes in firmware security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The experts also shared a list of additional five weaknesses, included in the Hardware Weaknesses on the Cusp, that should be addressed by risk managers. CIOs and security managers could also use the list to assess the efficiency of their program to secure hardware within in their organizations. ” reads the announcement.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The researchers focused their analysis on the firmware integrity verification process implemented in the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC. “There is an access mode used during manufacturing of S7-1200 CPUs that allows additional diagnostic functionality. ” reads a security advisory published by Siemens.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

Besides all the benefits IoMT devices provide, they have also introduced new risks to healthcare organizations that haven’t previously been a security priority. These new risks have created a dangerous security gap—new technology is introducing new risks and a larger attack surface. Hackable pacemakers.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agriculture may not be the first industry you associate with cybersecurity problems, but we all need to aware of the risks created by connecting this ancient part of our food supply chain to the Internet. Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released. ” Internet of Things.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

The vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow issue and according to the vendor it may have been exploited in a limited number of attacks aimed at government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. If the customer is not operating SSL-VPN the risk of this issue is mitigated – however, Fortinet still recommends upgrading.”

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

These smart devices include cars, household appliances, building systems such as lighting and heating, televisions, medical devices, manufacturing equipment, and many other types of systems used both in a consumer and industrial setting. Millions of smart TVs are at risk of click fraud, botnets, data theft, and ransomware.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Toy manufacturers are striving to keep up with these trends, releasing more and more models that can also be called “smart.” However, we decided not to update the toy immediately in order to explore what could be extracted from the older firmware version. The ADB service is disabled. ” from the cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Driven by the need to secure themselves against increasing threats, organizations (both manufacturers and IoT consumers) realize that they need better built-in security. To secure data exchanged between IoT devices and the software required for operating these devices – bootstrap, firmware, apps – we need to establish a chain of trust.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 23, 2021

Despite the increasing move to digitalization, many industries and teams still rely on printing as a vital part of their business processes, including the legal, healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics sectors. It’s not just human error that puts an organization at risk of a security breach. The security question.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Researchers at Applied Risk discovered serious flaws in some PLC gateways manufactured by industrial tech company ABB. Security experts at Applied Risk are affected by potentially serious flaws and the bad news is that the vendor will not release firmware updates because the impacted products have reached the end of life.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Users of the Network attached storage devices manufactured have reported a mystery string of malware attacks that disabled software updates by hijacking entries in host machines’ hosts file. “Since recent firmware updates, the ClamAV Antivirus fails to update due to 700+ clamav.net entries in /etc/hosts, all set to 0.0.0.0

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Countermeasures: To prevent drone signal hijacking, drone manufacturers and operators can implement encryption and authentication mechanisms for RF communication. What are the common firmware and software vulnerabilities in RF devices that can be exploited? Keeping firmware up to date is essential for security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a recent blog post , the researchers said the bad actors are looking to leverage a path traversal vulnerability that could affect millions of home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use the same code base and are manufactured by at least 17 vendors. ” Should Updates Be Automated? ” Multiple Threats.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The case offered a stark demonstration of the risks U.S. “ After seeing no adverse effects, the entity deployed the firmware patch at an operational generation site that night.” “ After seeing no adverse effects, the entity deployed the firmware patch at an operational generation site that night.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. Install updates/patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released. hard drive, storage device, the cloud). Focus on cyber security awareness and training. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. ” reads the report published by the company.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

” The IoT radio devices are manufactured by Imperial & Dabman (Series I and D) and are distributed in Germany by Telestar, but experts pointed out that it is possible to buy them via Ebay and Amazon by resellers. .” Nevertheless, the protocol on network level and in end devices is still a bigger topic than originally thought.”

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