This week in the security news: Linux process injection, Threat actors need training too, A Linux device "capable of practically anything", The Internet of webcams, Hacking cheap devices, Automating exploitation with local AI models, Lame C2, Smallest SSH backdoor, Your RDP is on the Internet, These are not the high severity bugs you were looking f...
The Broadside botnet, a modification of the decade-old Mirai, employs a custom command and control protocol and unique modules for stealth and evasion.
This week we welcome Ed Skoudis to talk about the holiday hack challenge (https://sans.org/HolidayHack). In the security news: Oh Asus, Dashcam botnets, Weird CVEs being issued, CodeRED, but not the worm, Free IP checking, Internet space junk and IoT, Decade old Linux kernel vulnerabilities, Breaking out of Claude code, Malicious LLMs, Hacker on a ...
Axis Communications has become the first major surveillance camera manufacturer to sign the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Secure by Design pledge, according to Cybersecurity Dive.
South Korea's National Police Agency has announced the arrest of four individuals accused of breaching over 120,000 network-connected home and business cameras as part of a sexploitation scheme, the BBC reports.
Malware has been spread in a recent update of the widely used open-source SmartTube YouTube client for Android TV after its developer's signing keys were compromised last week, reports BleepingComputer.
In the security news: Cloudflare was down, it was not good, Logitech breached, The largest data breach in history?, Fortinet Fortiweb - the saga continues, Hacking Linux through your malware scanner, oh the irony, I never stopped hating systemd, The ASUS exploit that never existed, If iRobot fails, can we deploy our own hacker bot army?, Threat act...
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