uh - oh, the whole world is at risk.. :-o

Started by icecream-guy, December 08, 2020, 12:11:14 PM

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icecream-guy

Someone we know must have been hard at work.


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YES, AT THIS point it's a cliché that cheap, generic internet-of-things products can harbor vulnerabilities that potentially expose millions or even billions of devices. And yet it's no less urgent each time. Now, new research from the IoT security firm Forescout highlights 33 flaws in an open source internet protocol bundles that potentially expose millions of embedded devices to attacks like information interception, denial of service, and total takeover.

Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
https://www.wired.com/story/amnesia33-iot-vulnerabilitiesmay-never-get-fixed/
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
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