Smart Vacuum Cleaners Making Map Of Your Home — And Wants to Sell It

What if I say that your cute, smart robotic vacuum cleaner is collecting data than just dirt? During an interview with Reuters, the CEO of iRobot, the company which manufactured Roomba device, has revealed that the robotic vacuum cleaner also builds a map of your home while cleaning — and is now...

A week in security (July 17 – July 23)

Over the last week, we have covered Play Protect, android’s new security system and how the Dutch police ran Hansa Market after the take down of Alpha Bay, both major players on the Dark Web. We also provided some tips on how to stay cyber safe this summer. We also saw how the Terror exploit kit...

Hacker Admits to Mirai Attack Against Deutsche Telekom

A hacker that goes by the name “BestBuy” admitted to a German court on Friday that he was behind an attack last year that knocked close to 1 million customers of German ISP Deutsche Telekom offline. The suspect is a 29-year old British man who is only identified as “Daniel K.” He was arrested Feb...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Motivation Mystery Behind WannaCry, ExPetr

If two is a coincidence and three is a trend, maybe we’re not quite there yet in officially calling WannaCry and ExPetr a new movement among APT attacks. But for now, it’s close enough. Researchers are starting to examine the real motivations behind each global outbreak and whether these attacks...

gSOAP open-source software development library aeration“green rose”vulnerability, millions of IoT devices in jeopardy-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Remember a few days ago Avanti vending machines loopholes, leakage of a large amount of user information? It didn't take long, the other one for IoT device attacks appeared again, this time the recruitment is the development of IoT devices open-source software library that may affect millions of...

Password Masking

Slashdot asks if password masking -- replacing password characters with asterisks as you type them -- is on the way out. I don't know if that's true, but I would be happy to see it go. Shoulder surfing, the threat is defends against, is largely nonexistent. And it is becoming harder to type in...

July 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Rosetta Stone” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 19, 2017 - Headlines Cyberattack on Ukrainian Clinics, Pharmacies Worries...

Bad Code Library Triggers Devil's Ivy Vulnerability in Millions of IoT Devices

Tens of millions of products ranging from airport surveillance cameras, sensors, networking equipment and IoT devices are vulnerable to a flaw that allows attackers to remotely gain control over devices or crash them. The vulnerability, dubbed Devil’s Ivy, was identified by ​researchers at Senrio...

New Linux Malware Exploits SambaCry Flaw to Silently Backdoor NAS Devices

Remember SambaCry? Almost two months ago, we reported about a 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability in Samba networking software, allowing a hacker to remotely take full control of a vulnerable Linux and Unix machines. We dubbed the vulnerability as SambaCry, because of its...

Experts in Lather Over ‘gSOAP’ Security Flaw

Axis Communications -- a maker of high-end security cameras whose devices can be found in many high-security areas -- recently patched a dangerous coding flaw in virtually all of its products that an attacker could use to remotely seize control over or crash the devices. The problem wasn't specif...

July 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Thomas Edison” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 18, 2017 - Headlines U.S. House Panel to Consider Self-Driving Car...

Remotely Exploitable Flaw Puts Millions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk

Security researchers have discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in an open-source software development library used by major manufacturers of the Internet-of-Thing devices that eventually left millions of devices vulnerable to hacking. The vulnerability CVE-2017-9765, discovere...

AttifyOS: IoT Devices Testing Distribution!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Distributions such as Kali Linux make it easier for us to carry out our penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, digital forensics gigs and wireless assessments. However, there are very few tools on such distributions that help you test the security of Internet of Things I...

iSmartAlarm CubeOne Remote Command Execution Exploit

iSmartAlarm CubeOne suffers from a remote command execution vulnerability that allows disabling the alarm and setting it off. + Credits: Ilia Shnaidman + @0x496c on Twitter + Source: http://dojo.bullguard.com/blog/burglar-hacker-when-a-physical-security-is-compromised-by-iot-vulnerabilities/...

iSmartAlarm CubeOne Remote Command Execution

Credits: Ilia Shnaidman + @0x496c on Twitter + Source: http://dojo.bullguard.com/blog/burglar-hacker-when-a-physical-security-is-compromised-by-iot-vulnerabilities/ Vendor: ============= iSmartAlarm, inc. Product: =========================== iSmartAlarm cube - All iSmartAlarm is one of the...

iSmartAlarm Backend Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits + Credits: Ilia Shnaidman + Source: http://dojo.bullguard.com/blog/burglar-hacker-when-a-physical-security-is-compromised-by-iot-vulnerabilities/ Vendor: ============= iSmartAlarm, inc. Product: ============= iSmartAlarm Backend iSmartAlar...

iSmartAlarm CubeOne Missing SSL Certificate Validation Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits + Credits: Ilia Shnaidman + Source: http://dojo.bullguard.com/blog/burglar-hacker-when-a-physical-security-is-compromised-by-iot-vulnerabilities/ Vendor: ============= iSmartAlarm, inc. Product: =========================== iSmartAlarm cube...

July 12, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Henry David Thoreau” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 12, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Closing Bell July 11, 2017 ...

Telit IoT TI Tag Viewer - External URLs, Suspicious files vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Telit IoT TI Tag Viewer published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...