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Why Application Penetration Testing is Critical

Application penetration testing or pen test is more critical than ever and news today is only the most recent example of why. Spiral Toys makes a line of Internet connected teddy bears (aka smart bears, I guess) that allows parents and children who were physically apart to share personal messages. Unfortunately for the purchasers of […]

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University Hit With The Attack of the Vending Machines

Sounds like a low budget sci-fi thriller, but it is not. In a sneak peak of Verizon’s new data breach report, Verizon tells the story of an unnamed university that was attacked by its own vending machines.  For real. The university had thousand of devices to manage, so, like many businesses, decided that connecting all […]

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Dozens of Netgear Products Vulnerable to Authentication Bypass

Not only are hackers lazy but security researchers are lazy too.  Researcher Simon Kenin was being lazy one day and decided to try to hack his Netgear router.  Interesting definition of lazy – his, not mine. He came upon an old, known authentication vulnerability. It allowed him to recover his forgotten password without authenticating himself […]

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This Security Camera Was Hacked in How Many Seconds After Being Put Online?

OK, I will give you the punchline upfront.   According to Tech Crunch, Robert Stephens, a tech industry veteran, put a WiFi connected security camera on the Internet and was hacked in …. 98 Seconds. In 98 seconds it is highly unlikely that you could even get logged in to the camera, never mind change […]

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Yet Another IoT Device with Hardcoded Credentials

Last month the Mirai botnet took down Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other web sites by compromising cheap Chinese web cams and weaponizing them.  While the attack was very interesting and could have been a lot worse, I attributed it to it being a cheap Chinese web cam.  Hundreds of thousands of them. Now an […]

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