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Hackers claim to have compromised 50,000 home cameras and posted footage online

Security Affairs

“Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.” The gang uses the instant messaging app Discord and has nearly 1,000 members, it focuses on the hacking security cameras. ” reported The New Paper.”

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 357 by Pierluigi Paganini

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

Stok: In the early 90s, when everyone was just not having the internet, that's kind of where I started my journey. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today. I started in journalism. No infosec Twitter or Discord.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

Stok: In the early 90s, when everyone was just not having the internet, that's kind of where I started my journey. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today. I started in journalism. No infosec Twitter or Discord.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

Stok: In the early 90s, when everyone was just not having the internet, that's kind of where I started my journey. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today. I started in journalism. No infosec Twitter or Discord.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. It was all this discovery on the internet that brought me to it. In particular, he was reading the data off of the various smart meters learning when they were last shut off. I logged all that data.