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Technology Short Take 136

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #136, the first Short Take of 2021! Servers/Hardware. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Want to enable logging in every AWS service that exists (as of 2021)? Networking.

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Technology Short Take 155

Scott Lowe

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Servers/Hardware. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. network virtualization).

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

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In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

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Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. So containers, really helped with that as well. Vamosi: So that is a problem.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

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Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. I remember reading a report that Google had implemented hardware tokens, their entire employee, everybody has a hardware token.

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