FBI Director — You Should Cover Your Webcam With Tape

Should you put a tape or a sticker over the lens of your laptop's webcam? Yes, even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and FBI Director James Comey do that. Covering your laptop's webcam might be a hell cheap and good idea to guard against hackers and intruders who might want to watch your private life...

Tonight Mr. Robot is Going to Reveal ‘Dream Device For Hackers’

Mr. Robot is the rare show that provides a realistic depiction of hacks and vulnerabilities that are at the forefront of cyber security. This is the reason it’s been the most popular TV show of its kind. Throughout season 1 and season 2, we have seen that connected devices are the entry point of...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the Bluetooth component in the Android operating system exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges by connecting devices via Bluetooth while the main user is working...

IoT Insecurity: Top Connected Device Security Concerns

It’s a coin toss whether or not that Internet of Things device you depend on is secure. Those unacceptable 50/50 odds come from a survey by IOActive where technology professionals were asked about the security of connected devices from thermostats, security cameras to alarm systems. Those numbers...

Command Vulnerabilities Plague IP Enabled AirLive Cameras

A handful of IP-enabled cameras are susceptible to command injection vulnerabilities that could let attackers decode user credentials and gain complete access to the devices. At least five different types of AirLive cameras, manufactured by OvisLink Corp., an IP surveillance networking solutions...

Shodan Scanner GTP Request

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices, which may be used to discover vulnerable devices connected to the Internet, as a preliminary stage before launching an attack...

Shodan Scanner ENIP Request

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices, which may be used to discover vulnerable devices connected to the Internet, as a preliminary stage before launching an attack...

Shodan Scanner BACNET Request

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices, which may be used to discover vulnerable devices connected to the Internet, as a preliminary stage before launching an attack...

Wireless Network Watcher v1.81 - Show Who is Connected to your Wireless Network

Wireless Network Watcher is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network. For every computer or device that is connected to your network, the following information is displayed: IP address, MAC...

Google Brillo OS — New Android-based OS for Internet of Things

Internet of Things is the future, and every big tech companies are trying to become an integral part of this upcoming trend. Keeping this in mind, Google is developing an operating system for connecting all devices via the Internet. Google is expected to launch a new Android-based operating syste...

Wireless Network Watcher v1.79 - Show who is connected to your wireless network

Wireless Network Watcher is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network. For every computer or device that is connected to your network, the following information is displayed: IP address, MAC...

Shodan.io Internet Of Things Portal

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices, which may be used to discover vulnerable devices connected to the Internet, as a preliminary stage before launching an attack...

Researcher Discloses Wi-Fi Thermostat Vulnerabilities

Heatmiser, a U.K.-based manufacturer of digital thermostats, is contacting its customers today about a series of security issues that could expose a Wi-Fi-connected version of its product to takeover. Andrew Tierney, a “reverse-engineer by night,” whose specialty is digging up bugs in embedded...

WhoIsConnectedSniffer - Detect who is connected to your network without scanning

WhoIsConnectedSniffer is a network discovery tool that listens to network packets on your network adapter using a capture driver WinpCap or MS network monitor and accumulates a list of computer and devices currently connected to your network. WhoIsConnectedSniffer uses various protocols to detect...

Desktop Viruses Coming to Your TV and Connected Home Appliances

Smart Devices are growing at an exponential rate and so are the threats to them. After your Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles and Tablets, now hackers are targeting your Smart TVs, warns Eugene Kaspersky the co-founder and chief executive of Kaspersky Lab. As the increase in the manufactures o...

Researchers Find Serious Flaws in WeMo Home Automation Devices

UPDATE–There has been a joke going around the tech industry for years about refrigerators and other home appliances one day being connected to the Internet and being able to order more milk for you or allow you to turn off your lights remotely. That day is today, and those Internet-connected...

'Let's Do Security That Matters'

NEW YORK–A small group of influential security researchers and executives are putting together a grass-roots movement to encourage more research on the emerging breed of connected and potentially vulnerable devices such as pacemakers, insulin pumps and others and help educate users about the...

Sandia Lab's MegaDroid Project Builds Out Massive Android Test Platform

It might sound like a security researcher’s worst nightmare to string together 300,000 virtual instances of the Android OS, but for scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, it’s just another day. The Department of Energy-sponsored national security-focused laboratory released the MegaDroid...

Conceptronic GrabnGo Network Storage - Directory Traversal

Conceptronic GrabnGo Network Storage - Directory Traversal Security Advisory AA-003: Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Conceptronic Grab’n’Go Network Storage Severity Rating: High Discovery Date: July 29, 2012 Vendor Notification: July 30, 2012 Disclosure Date: September 3, 2012 Vulnerability...

Conceptronic Grab’n’Go Network Storage Directory Traversal

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Conceptronic Grab’n’Go Network Storage Severity Rating: High Discovery Date: July 29, 2012 Vendor Notification: July 30, 2012 Disclosure Date: September 3, 2012 Vulnerability Type= Directory Traversal...