Cisco – a company that likes to remind us how much of their hardware makes up the infrastructure of the internet – has released a statement warning that an “unintentional debugging credential” has not been removed from some of their devices before they were sold. This affects devices found in …
Hallowe’en and maybe the hacker god will return from the dead! – #BeCyberSmart
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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Telecoms vulnerabilities
Here is more on the story – Sophisticated hackers attack telecom companies – Smart Thinking Solutions with links to more information. Nation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks – Schneier on Security
Sophisticated hackers attack telecom companies
This is another attack on the infrastructure we are all dependent on. At least 13 phone firms hit by suspected Chinese hackers since 2019, say experts | Hacking | The Guardian Chinese hackers get the headlines and the blame, and there is evidence, but the attribution is not definitive. Assumptions …
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