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Major IoT data breach: Mars Hydro database with 2.7 billion records exposed. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says the breach is a reminder of the risks that come with using IoT devices.
On 26 January 2018, two similar Mirai variant botnets were reported, the more modified version of which weaponizes EDB 38722 D-Link router's exploit to enlist further vulnerable IoT devices. The vulnerability in the router's Home Network Administration Protocol (HNAP) is utilized to craft a malicious query to exploited routers that can bypass ...
Kr00k (also written as KrØØk) is a security vulnerability that allows some WPA2 encrypted WiFi traffic to be decrypted. [1] The vulnerability was originally discovered by security company ESET in 2019 and assigned CVE-2019-15126 on August 17th, 2019. [2] ESET estimates that this vulnerability affects over a billion devices. [3]
On 17 May 2017, United States bipartisan lawmakers introduced the PATCH Act [167] that aims to have exploits reviewed by an independent board to "balance the need to disclose vulnerabilities with other national security interests while increasing transparency and accountability to maintain public trust in the process".
Some might argue that Heartbleed is the worst vulnerability found (at least in terms of its potential impact) since commercial traffic began to flow on the Internet. [38] An unidentified UK Cabinet Office spokesman recommended that: People should take advice on changing passwords from the websites they use.
Ripple20 is a set of vulnerabilities discovered in 2020 in a software library that implemented a TCP/IP stack.The security concerns were discovered by JSOF, which named the collective vulnerabilities for how one company's code became embedded into numerous products.
EternalBlue [5] is a computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). [6] It is based on a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network.
At the DEF CON 24 security conference in 2016, [61] Cui, along with his principal scientist Jatin Kataria and security researcher Francois Charbonneau, demonstrated [62] previously unknown vulnerabilities in the firmware of widely used computer monitors, which an attacker could exploit to both spy on the user's screen activity and to manipulate ...