firmware security - Tagged - Security Boulevard The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:00:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png firmware security - Tagged - Security Boulevard 32 32 133346385 QNAP’s Buggy Security Fix Causes Chaos https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/qnap-bad-patch-richixbw/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:54:57 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2037597 Three tiny people cleaning the inside of a hard drive

RAID FAIL: NAS Maker does a CrowdStrike—cleanup on /dev/dsk/c1t2d3s4 please

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ASUS Router User? Patch ASAP! https://securityboulevard.com/2024/06/asus-router-critical-update-richixbw/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:45:37 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2021854 An ASUS router, with superimposed text: “Patch ASUS ASAP”

Or junk it if EOL: Two nasty vulnerabilities need an update—pronto.

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‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ — 600,000+ Rural ISP Routers Bricked Beyond Repair https://securityboulevard.com/2024/05/pumpkin-eclipse-windstream-richixbw/ Fri, 31 May 2024 17:13:21 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2020272 A small cabin in the middle of a forest

Daft name, serious risk: Kit from ActionTec and Sagemcom remotely ruined and required replacement.

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Pandora Malware On Android TV: Safeguard Yourself Today https://securityboulevard.com/2023/09/pandora-malware-on-android-tv-safeguard-yourself-today/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:00:06 +0000 https://tuxcare.com/?p=13173 Popular for media streaming, low-cost Android TV set-top boxes are facing a new threat: a form of the Mirai malware botnet, which has recently attacked millions of these devices. This Pandora malware on Android TV has been detected by Dr. Web’s antivirus team as an advanced version of the ‘Pandora’ backdoor, which first appeared in […]

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Security Podcasting, Hacking Stories, and The State of Firmware Security with Paul Asadoorian https://securityboulevard.com/2023/06/security-podcasting-hacking-stories-and-the-state-of-firmware-security-with-paul-asadoorian/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 04:00:42 +0000 https://sharedsecurity.net/?p=101470 Paul Asadoorian, OG security podcaster and host of the popular Paul’s Security Weekly podcast, joins us in this episode to talk about his career as one of the original security podcasters. Paul’s been podcasting for more then 17 years! Paul also shares with us some of his greatest hacking stories and don’t miss our lively […]

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‘CosmicStrand’ Highlights Ongoing Firmware Risks https://securityboulevard.com/2022/08/cosmicstrand-highlights-ongoing-firmware-risks/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:00:44 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1932976 Traceable AI, API security, APIs, Wallarm, Akamai, APIs, API security, threat modeling, ICS, VPNs, APIs, risk, left-of-bang, threats, vulnerabilities, XDR, zero-trust, attack, XDR API Skyhawk Security modeling threat CosmicStrand insider threats Threat Modeling - Secure Coding - Cybersecurity - Security

You’re not imagining things; new firmware threats are appearing more often. The most recent is CosmicStrand, which exploits the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to avoid detection. The new UEFI rootkit, detailed in a blog post by Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team, apparently targets the Intel H81 chipset. The researchers were unable to..

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HP Patches High-Risk Vulnerability in Business Printers https://securityboulevard.com/2017/11/hp-patches-high-risk-vulnerability-business-printers/ Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:43:29 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1754163

HP released security firmware updates this week for dozens of printers, including enterprise models, to fix a high-risk vulnerability that could allow attackers to compromise the devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-2750, stems from a failure to properly validate DLL signatures and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the operating system of 54..

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