The Aisuru distributed denial-of-service botnet's record-breaking attack last week that peaked at 29.6 Tbps has been primarily driven by breached Internet of Things devices on U.S. internet service providers, KrebsOnSecurity reports.
This week we kick things off with a special interview: Kieran Human from ThreatLocker talks about EDR bypasses and other special projects. In the security news: Hacking TVs, Flushable wipes are not the only problem, People just want to spy on their pets, except the devices can be hacked, Linux EDR is for the birds, What does my hat say, we love exp...
Threat of Year 2036/2038 vulnerabilities detailed Threat actors could harness the "Year 2036 Problem" and "Year 2038 Problem" rollover vulnerabilities impacting systems using older Network Time Protocol versions and those that leverage a 32-bit integer for time storage, respectively, to prompt significant disruptions over a decade before they are actually triggered, according to SecurityWeek.
Hackread reports that the most significant Layer 7 distributed denial-of-service attack aimed at a government entity, which involved a botnet composed of 5.76 million breached internet-connected devices and systems around the world, was averted by Qrator Labs earlier this month.
This week: Americans Can't Hack It, Copy and paste to get malware, Pixel 5 web servers - because you can, How they got in and why security is hard, Vulnerability management is failing - is it dead yet?, Exploiting hacker tools, Bluetooth spending spree!, How to defend your car, IoT security solutions and other such lies, Exploiting IBM i (formerly ...
In the secure news: Automakers respond to Flipper Zero attacks, More on the unconfirmed Elastic EDR 0-Day, When Secure Boot does its job too well, Crazy authenitcation bypass, Hacker ultimatums, AI Slop, Impatient hackers, Linux ISOs are malware, Attackers love drivers, Hacking Amazon's Eero, the hard way, Exploits will continue until security impr...
Operations of the Federal Communications Commission's Cyber Trust Mark program were noted by cybersecurity experts and Biden administration officials to be potentially undermined by an ongoing vague investigation launched by FCC Chair Brendan Carr over the Chinese links of Illinois-based testing conglomerate UL Solutions, which was tasked to supervise the program, reports Cybersecurity Dive.
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