Security Leftovers
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Security updates for Tuesday
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Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them
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IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction [iophk: "proprietary protocol == insecure"]
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Researchers identify new variant of IoT/Linux botnet
A new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet “Tsunami” has been identified by Unit 42 researchers, according to a blog post by Palo Alto Networks.
Co-authored by Claud Xiao, Cong Zheng and Yanhui Jia, the post names the new variant as Amnesia, a botnet that targets an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability.
This vulnerability was publicly disclosed over a year ago in March 2016 in DVR (digital video recorder) devices made by TVT Digital and branded by over 70 vendors across the globe.
This unpatched remote code execution vulnerability affects about 227,000 devices around the world especially Taiwan, the United States, Israel, Turkey, and India.
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You can now sign into a Microsoft Account without a password [iophk: "a phone is not a safe 2nd factor"
Microsoft is enabling a new phone sign in option as part of the company’s iOS and Android Microsoft Authenticator app.
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