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Samsung SmartCam can be easily hijacked

20

Jan

2017

At least one type of Samsung SmartCam cameras can be taken over by remote attackers who just need to know the vulnerable camera’s IP address. The remote code execution vulnerability that can be exploited to perform the attack was discovered by hackers from the Exploitee.rs team, and the attack demonstrated in this video: Read More

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Attackers can hijack unencrypted web traffic of 80% of Android users

18

Aug

2016

The recently revealed security bug (CVE-2016-5696) in the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel that could allow attackers to hijack unencrypted web traffic without an MitM position also affects some 1.4 billion Android devices, Lookout researchers have warned.

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How email in transit can be intercepted using DNS hijacking

19

Jan

2016

This article looks at how an attacker can intercept and read emails sent from one email provider to another by performing a DNS MX record hijacking attack. While our research on the state of email delivery security indicates that this attack is less pervasive than the TLS downgrade attack, it is equally effective at defeating email in-transit encryption.

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