More than a Billion Snapdragon-based Android Phones Vulnerable to Hacking

More than a Billion of Android devices are at risk of a severe vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon chip that could be exploited by any malicious application to gain root access on the device. Security experts at Trend Micro are warning Android users of some severe programming blunders in...

Chris Valasek Talks Car Hacking, IoT, at RSA

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Valasek, Security Lead, Uber ATC, about the talk he and Charlie Miller gave at RSA, hacking cars, the challenges around getting manufacturers to patch vulnerabilities in vehicles, IoT, and more...

Raspberry Pi 3 — New $35 MicroComputer with Built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

While celebrating its computer's fourth birthday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched a brand new Raspberry Pi today. Great news for all Micro-computing fans – A new, powerful Raspberry Pi 3 Model B in town. Months after introducing just $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi Foundation has...

Multiple DVR Devices Multiple Vulnerabilities (Feb 2016)

Multiple Digital Video Recorder DVR devices are prone to authentication bypass and remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. Copyright C 2016 SCHUTZWERK GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Hack Disarms SimpliSafe's Home Wireless Security Systems

More than a quarter million homes protected by SimpliSafe wireless security systems are vulnerable to hackers who can deactivate the alarm anytime, according to IOActive, a Seattle-based security consulting firm. IOActive published a proof of concept report on Wednesday that outlines how it...

Using SimpliSafe Home Security? — You're Screwed! It's Easy to Hack & Can't be Patched

If you are using a SimpliSafe wireless home alarm system to improve your home security smartly, just throw it up and buy a new one. It is useless. The so-called 'Smart' Technology, which is designed to make your Home Safer, is actually opening your house doors for hackers. The latest in this fiel...

IEEE Highlights Top Security Risks For Wearables

As sales of IoT devices continue to see year-over-year double digit growth, security experts are urging the wearable industry to put security front and center when it comes to designing fitness tracker hardware, firmware and backend systems. In a report released Wednesday by the IEEE Center for...

Recapping SAS 2016: IoT Hacks, Metel, Poseidon, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap last week’s Security Analyst Summit — including lots of IoT and critical infrastructure talk, how a researcher hacked his hospital, news on APTs like Metel and Poseidon, and more. Download: ReflectingonSAS2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

British Intelligence is Legally Allowed to Hack Anyone, Court Says

Hacking of computers, smartphones and networks in the United Kingdom or abroad by the Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ is LEGAL, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal IPT ruled. So, the UK is giving clean chit to its intelligence agency to spy on its people as well as people living...

Medical Device, Health Care Security Continues to Ail

TENERFIE, Spain – Sergey Lozhkin knows malware. Medical devices? Admittedly, not so much. That, however, was not an impediment to the Kaspersky Lab researcher in cracking the digital walls of a Moscow hospital and finding a shocking array of open doors on the network and weaknesses in medical...

IoT's Day of Reckoning on the Horizon

TENERIFE, Spain–When it comes to the internet of things, it isn’t Wi-Fi that scares Chris Rouland, it’s the whole wireless spectrum, constantly being updated with new and poorly secured protocols. Since these protocols can be reverse engineered so easily, he stressed the modern-day equivalent of...

A Backdoor in Socat? Going Dark, IoT, and Previewing SAS 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain. Download:...

R7-2015-27 and R7-2015-24: Fisher-Price Smart Toy® & hereO GPS Platform Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Through our recent publication of numerous security issues of Internet-connected baby monitors, we were able to comprehensively raise awareness of the real-world risks facing those devices. Further, we were able to work with a number of vendors to get key security problems resolved, resulting in...

Fisher-Price Smart Toy platform allows some unauthenticated web API commands

Overview The Fisher-Price Smart Toy does not perform proper authentication of some API commands, and it may also use a vulnerable version of Android. Description The Fisher-Price Smart Toy bear is a new WiFi-connected Internet of Things IoT toy. The device utilizes network connectivity to provide...

Linux Kernel 3.x / 4.x - prima WLAN Driver Heap Overflow

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc / Coder: Shawn the R0ck, email protected Co-worker: Pray3r, email protected Compile: arm-linux-androideabi-gcc wextpoc.c --sysroot=$SYSROOT -pie ./a.out wlan0 Boom......shit happens as always;- / include include include include include include...

How to Hack WiFi Password from Smart Doorbells

The buzz around The Internet of Things IoT is growing, and it is growing at a great pace. Every day the technology industry tries to connect another household object to the Internet. One such internet-connected household device is a Smart Doorbell. Gone are the days when we have regular doorbells...

D-Link Webcam Hack Turns IoT Device into Backdoor

Connecting a webcam to your home or office network might seem like a harmless thing, but researchers have figured out how to turn that connected device into a backdoor. Researchers at Vectra Networks today released a report demonstrating how a $30 D-Link webcam can be abused by attackers and turn...

New Long-Range Wi-Fi Standard Offers Double Range to Home Devices

It is a common problem: Home Wireless Router's reach is terrible that the WiFi network even does not extend past the front door of the room. My house also has all kinds of Wi-Fi dead zones, but can we fix it? The answer is: YES. The problem will improve with a future, longer range version of Wi-F...

IOT security: LED lights there are multiple security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, there are foreign security experts found Zengge company WIFI LED lamp in the presence of a plurality of security vulnerabilities. Shenzhen levy Aurora Mega science and technologyZENGGE is a set of LED Controller product development, manufacturing, sales and engineering design,...

Backdoor in ScreenOS (SSH)

ScreenOS is vulnerable to an unauthorized remote administrative access to the device over SSH or telnet. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...