When your Internet connected baby monitor fails you probably whine. You may complain to the manufacturer or the store where you bought it. Or, you may just buy a new one. But if that IoT device is your car, well, that could be a bit more complicated. If you buy a used car and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. All that is about to change and I don’t mean that the Constitution is going to change. Like the Apple-FBI fight earlier this year, Amazon is in a fight with the law and I don’t think it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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