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Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating

WIRED Threat Level

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house.

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Win the connected and autonomous car race while protecting data privacy

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To enable this revolution, automobile manufacturers and their supply chain partners have rapidly adopted new technologies to better serve customers and win competitive advantages: Embedding high-speed connectivity in vehicles to improve customer experience and entertainment as well as real-time diagnostics and OTA updates. Data security.

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Android Botnet leverages ADB ports and SSH to spread

Security Affairs

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB ( Android Debug Bridge ) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

The purpose of the script is to optimize the mining module by querying the information about the CPU through the reading of the “ /proc/cpu ” and when the manufacturer is retrieved the script provides to add some specific registry values depending by the vendor through the Model-Specific Register utility “ wrmsr ”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Maybe don’t call Saul? Over 30,000 VoIP devices identifiable worldwide, some with suspected vulnerabilities

Security Affairs

Our research shows that large and small manufacturers are identifiable, with Aastra-Mitel topping the list. Aastra-Mitel tops the manufacturer list, the United States leads the list among countries, and London tops the chart among cities. Devices made by the US manufacturer Polycom, a subsidiary of Plantronics Inc.,

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Exclusive: MalwareMustDie analyzes a new IoT malware dubbed Linux/ AirDropBot

Security Affairs

But let’s go back to the beginning of the story when my very good friend @0xrb found in his honeypot this new “ Mirai like ” Linux malware, which has important differences with the Mirai implementation. Odisseus – Independent Security Researcher involved in Italy and worldwide in topics related to hacking, penetration testing and development.

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