A thought, one way to mitigate such security issues yourself would be to make use of subaddressing (the + sign) in your email address you use for such services, by appending your own random guid, for example, essentially making guessing your exact email address string futile. For example instead of using simply johndoe@example.com you would instead use johndoe+9be28cb9-fd22-4e9f-8144-93f90ab04a1f@example.com when registering. Assuming the service provider isn't using some lame and incorrect email address validation regex.
That, with some API tinkering and an email address, a bad actor could possibly set its temperature or make it run constantly.
Opening a tap triggers the exchanger, heats up the water (with natural gas, in my case), and the device has to push it through the line to where it's needed.
When I went into the utility closet to shut off the hose bibbs for winter, I noticed a plastic bag magnetically stuck to the back side of the water heater.
The Control-R Wi-Fi Module must be installed for recirculation to operate,” read the intense yellow warning label.
The tone of the language inside (“DO NOT TOUCH,” unless you are “a properly trained technician”) did not match that of the can-do manual (“get the most from your new module”).
I installed the device, went through the typical “Connect your phone to this weirdly named hotspot” process, and—it worked.
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Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel designed to protect it from snooping or tampering.
TunnelVision, as the researchers have named their attack, largely negates the entire purpose and selling point of VPNs, which is to encapsulate incoming and outgoing Internet traffic in an encrypted tunnel and to cloak the user’s IP address.
The attack works by manipulating the DHCP server that allocates IP addresses to devices trying to connect to the local network.
A setting known as option 121 allows the DHCP server to override default routing rules that send VPN traffic through a local IP address that initiates the encrypted tunnel.
When apps run on Linux there’s a setting that minimizes the effects, but even then TunnelVision can be used to exploit a side channel that can be used to de-anonymize destination traffic and perform targeted denial-of-service attacks.
This remedy is problematic for two reasons: (1) a VPN user connecting to an untrusted network has no ability to control the firewall and (2) it opens the same side channel present with the Linux mitigation.
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Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls in a five-month-long campaign that breaks into government networks around the world, researchers reported Wednesday.
These devices are ideal targets because they sit at the edge of a network, provide a direct pipeline to its most sensitive resources, and interact with virtually all incoming communications.
Those characteristics, combined with a small cast of selected targets all in government, have led Talos to assess that the attacks are the work of government-backed hackers motivated by espionage objectives.
“Our attribution assessment is based on the victimology, the significant level of tradecraft employed in terms of capability development and anti-forensic measures, and the identification and subsequent chaining together of 0-day vulnerabilities,” Talos researchers wrote.
“Regardless of your network equipment provider, now is the time to ensure that the devices are properly patched, logging to a central, secure location, and configured to have strong, multi-factor authentication (MFA),” the researchers wrote.
It stems from improper validation of files when they’re read from the flash memory of a vulnerable device and allows for remote code execution with root system privileges when exploited.
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Design the internet around principles of communication between people, based on choices everyone makes and can understand the implications of.
Given that the internet was meant and is designed as a means to surveil, sell, and act as a private means of production, there is no way to fix it without completely dismantling it and starting fresh.
Payments outfits Viamedis and Almerys both experienced breaches of their systems in late January, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) revealed, leading to the theft of data belonging to more than 33 million customers.
"This is the first time that there has been a violation of this magnitude [in France]," Yann Padova, digital data protection lawyer and former secretary general of the CNIL told French radio network Franceinfo.
The CNIL said that it's working with Viamedis and Almerys to ensure those affected are informed – as is required under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation – but it'll likely take some time to get the word out to nearly half the country.
The government plans to pursue "all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero," Canadian public safety officials declared after a summit this week on combating auto theft.
Dennis was sentenced in Florida in 2022 for using fake IDs populated with real information to open bank accounts and take out fraudulent loans, in one case making off with $20k in cash using another person's identity.
Dennis didn't just buy and use stolen PII, though – he also crafted it into profiles to sell to other criminals, and offered guidance on how to use the dodgy dossiers to commit bank fraud.
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Dutch authorities are lifting the curtain on an attempted cyberattack last year at its Ministry of Defense (MoD), blaming Chinese state-sponsored attackers for the espionage-focused intrusion.
According to the MIVD and AIVD, the RAT operates outside of traditional detection measures and acts as a second-stage malware, mainly to establish persistent access for attackers, surviving reboots and firmware upgrades.
In the cybersecurity advisory published today, authorities said the malware was highly stealthy and difficult to detect using default FortiGate CLI commands, since Coathanger hooks most system calls that could identify it as malicious.
"MIVD and AIVD emphasize that this incident does not stand on its own, but is part of a wider trend of Chinese political espionage against the Netherlands and its allies," the advisory reads.
After gaining an initial foothold inside the network, which was used by the MOD's research and development division, the attackers performed reconnaissance and stole a list of user accounts from the Active Directory server.
For those worried about whether Chinese cyberspies are lurking in their firewall, the Joint Signal Cyber Unit of the Netherlands (JCSU-NL) published a full list of indicators of compromise (IOCs) and various detection methods on its GitHub page.
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It affects mainly docker and kubernets containers. I did a little research and apparently docker isn't based of lxc/lxd anymore, so I suppose that it doesn't affect those. Although I'm not sure what kubernets is based off
AnyDesk has copped to an IT security "incident" in which criminals broke into the remote-desktop software maker's production systems.
The application developer, which is said to have more than 170,000 customers worldwide, disclosed the intrusion in a statement on its website late on Friday, claiming it is "not related to ransomware."
While there's no specific mention of stolen data, some infosec analysts have pointed out that the disclosure indicates that criminals got hold of AnyDesk's code signing certificate.
According to infosec world watchers, criminals are selling AnyDesk customer credentials on the dark web, though these may not be related to this latest heist.
Other security shops warned that the pillaging has already begun with "multiple threat actors" selling access to stolen AnyDesk credentials.
Nick Hyatt, director of threat intelligence at managed detection and response firm BlackPoint, told The Register that the credentials are legitimate, but not newly stolen.
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