On Sunday night in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), hackers took over television streams around the country to broadcast an AI-delivered message about the war in Gaza. According to the Khaleej Times, the attack affected “European live channels” streaming on the HK1 RBOX, an Android-based set-top box. Emiratis watching the BBC, quiz shows, and more…

Researchers have discovered 21 vulnerabilities in a popular brand of industrial router. On Dec. 7 at Black Hat Europe, analysts from Forescout will reveal the bugs — including one of 9.6 “Critical” severity on the CVSS scale, and nine “High” severity — affecting a brand of operational technology (OT)/Internet of Things (IoT) routers especially common…

Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike introduced new extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities within its Falcon platform to secure “extended” internet of things (XIoT). CrowdStrike Falcon Insight for IoT delivers tailored threat prevention, rapid patch management, and interoperability across XIoT assets. XIoT is a broader category of assets and encompasses the Internet of Things, Industrial IoT, Operations…

Developers of ThingsBoard, an open-source platform for managing IoT devices that’s used in various industry sectors, have fixed a vulnerability that could allow attackers to escalate their privileges on a server and send requests with administrative privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26462, was discovered and privately reported by researchers from IBM Security X-Force. It stems…

The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-1017 and CVE-2023-1018, provide pathways for an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite protected data in the TPM firmware and launch code execution attacks, according to an advisory from Carnegie Mellon’s CERT coordination center. From the CERT alert: “An authenticated, local attacker could send maliciously crafted commands to a vulnerable TPM allowing…

Machine learning (ML) is a commonly used term across nearly every sector of IT today. And while ML has frequently been used to make sense of big data—to improve business performance and processes and help make predictions—it has also proven priceless in other applications, including cybersecurity. This article will share reasons why ML has risen…

Whether cybersecurity professionals, software developers, hardware tinkerers, or all of the above, hacker parents are some of the best “recruiters” for the future of tomorrow’s cyber workforce. If you’re one such pro seeking out a gift that’s not just fun but also gets your kid thinking like a hacker, we’ve got the gift guide for…

A type of cyberattack targeting applications or websites, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks aim to exhaust the target system’s resources to render it inaccessible to legitimate users. DDoS attacks may target server vulnerabilities to overload network resources or to consume these resources through the reflection of a high volume of network traffic to the target, or may…