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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality. Co-ordination is key.

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xHelper, the Unkillable Android malware that re-Installs after factory reset

Security Affairs

The researchers also provided information on how to remove xHelper from an infected device. Upon the installation, the malicious app registers itself as a foreground service and extracts an encrypted payload that gathers information about the victim’s device (android_id, manufacturer, model, firmware version, etc.)

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. I mean, how exactly is it different from Wi Fi or NFC? So the thing was that one major German car manufacturer had the standard pin of 1234.

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Firmware Fuzzing 101

ForAllSecure

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Non-glibc C standard library. In this post, we will cover how to deal with each one of these challenges in the firmware fuzzing context. Non-x86 processor architecture.

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Firmware Fuzzing 101

ForAllSecure

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Non-glibc C standard library. In this post, we will cover how to deal with each one of these challenges in the firmware fuzzing context. Non-x86 processor architecture.

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Decommissioned medical infusion pumps sold on secondary market could reveal Wi-Fi configuration settings

Security Affairs

The researchers analysed 13 infusion pumps that despite being no longer manufactured are still working in numerous medical organizations worldwide. However, the experts reported that current maintenance tools do support purging of data such as drug libraries, logs, and network configuration. ” continues the analysis.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

So far on the hacker mind, I've talked about Capture the Flag bug bounties and how to become a pen tester. To learn more about common threads facing these IoT devices, and how to create a framework for it, I turn to two experts. If they don't know how to effectively safely and lawfully conduct some of their security investigations, so.

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