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Many Cisco Devices Still Vulnerable to NSA-Linked Exploit

07

Sep

2016

Tens of thousands of devices running Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software are still vulnerable to attacks leveraging an exploit leaked by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers. Shadow Brokers has leaked hundreds of megabytes of firewall exploits and implants allegedly stolen from the NSA-linked threat actor known as the Equation Group. The leak included […]

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This tiny device can infect point-of-sale systems and unlock hotel rooms

03

Aug

2016

Millions of point-of-sale systems and hotel room locks can be hacked by temporarily placing a small, inexpensive device several inches away from their card readers. The device, due to be presented Sunday at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, is the creation of Weston Hecker, a senior security engineer at Rapid7. It was inspired […]

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Amazon Kindle Browser Exposed Searches to MitM Attacks

27

Jul

2016

Researchers discovered that an SSL flaw in Amazon’s Silk web browser could have been exploited by hackers to monitor users’ search engine traffic. Amazon Silk is a Chromium-based cloud-accelerated web browser developed for the company’s Kindle Fire tablets and Fire Phones. Similar to other browsers, Silk allows device owners to select which search engine they […]

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Many Cisco Devices Still Vulnerable to NSA-Linked Exploit

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