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‘Urgent/11’ flaws affect 200 million devices – from routers to elevators

July 31, 2019 0 Comments Internet of Things, IoT, Patching, RTOS, security threats, Urgent/11, vulnerability, VxWorks, Wind River

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:43:19 +0000

There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: “the most widely used operating system you may never have heard about”.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/nC9Xn3LZE9k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cyberattacks on connected cars could gridlock entire cities

July 31, 2019 0 Comments autonomous cars, Car security, cars, connected cars, Internet of Things, IoT, security threats, vehicle wifi

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:40:34 +0000

It would require taking over and stranding 20% of a city’s cars to freeze traffic, and only 10% to impede ambulances, physicists calculate.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/21-9DXPF4gg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Listening in: Humans hear the private info Siri accidentally records

July 30, 2019 0 Comments Alexa, Apple, Apple Watch, contractors, Google Assistant, HomePod, IoT, Machine Learning, Privacy, Siri, Uncategorized, voice assistants

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:28:24 +0000

Apple Watch and HomePod have the highest rate of inadvertent recordings, a whistleblower says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NBH7Od8K-QM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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A week in security (June 24 – 30)

July 19, 2019 0 Comments A week in security, atm attacks, atm fraud, atm malware strains, ATM scam, Azure, cryptocurrency scams, facial recognition, fake jquery, greenflas, Internet of Things, IoT, JavaScript, Massachusettes, Microsoft Azure, scareware, Slack, Slack outage, Somerville, spyware, Stalkerware, Yandex

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:02:56 +0000

A roundup of cybersecurity news from June 24–30, including top malicious web campaigns, updates on the GreenFlash Sundown exploit, a Malwarebytes initiative to double down on stalkerware detection and awareness, and more.

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A week in security

Tags: atm attacks atm fraud atm malware strains ATM scam Azure cryptocurrency scams facial recognition fake jquery greenflas Internet of Things IoT JavaScript Massachusettes Microsoft Azure scareware Slack Slack outage Somerville spyware stalkerware Yandex

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