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Exploit Released for Critical Vulnerability Affecting QNAP NAS Devices

Issued by: Security Week

The bug, specifically a memory corruption issue, was found to impact QNAP NAS devices running Surveillance Station versions 5.1.5.4.2 and 5.1.5.3.2, and was addressed in February this year. Tracked as CVE-2020-2501, this security hole is a stack-based buffer overflow that could be abused by remote attackers to execute code on an affected system, without authentication….

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RSA 2017: what are you trying to solve?

Issued by: CSO

This year at the RSA Security Conference some 40,000 people packed the halls of the Moscone center in search of solutions (and light up swords) to solve their problems. Whatever the issue, they were looking for a salve to sooth their wounds in a manner of speaking. For all of the vendors hawking their wares there…

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Bruce Schneier: Public-service technologists are needed to tame the IoT

Issued by: CIO Security

The internet of things needs to be regulated and soon before it becomes even more of a tool to facilitate cyberattacks, and that means coming up with civic-minded technologists to help formulate government policies, security expert Bruce Schneier told an RSA Conference 2017 audience. The problem is governments lack the technological expertise to understand the…

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Smart city initiatives: Highly integrated and complex problems to solve

Issued by: Help Net Security

Every day, leaders of large cities grapple with knotty, complex problems like decaying public transportation infrastructures, aging utility lines, urban blight, neighborhoods that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and other multi-faceted socio-economic challenges. Increasingly, municipal leaders are turning to urban analytics, data collection, and advances in sensor technology to help solve the…