Tens of thousands of Android devices are leaving their debug port exposed
Countless Android devices are leaving themselves open to attack after being shipped with a critical port left unsecured.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Vendors are shipping Android devices with diagnostic port exposed
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‘Found a leaky ethernet port’
As a regular reader of Reddit’s section devoted to system administration, I have come to understand that subject lines such as “Found a leaky ethernet port” do no always mean what one might assume they mean. Today’s example:
“This is going to be a fun couple of days,” bemoans the Redditor who discovered this leak. “It’s been raining for two days straight and it’s expected to continue for another two.”
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Brinks safe — with a USB port — proves easy hacking for security researchers
“Every step of the way, we were like, ‘This can’t be possible.’ ”
Yet this – opening a Brinks CompuSafe Galileo using its standard USB port, a keyboard and 100 lines of code – was most definitely possible for a pair of security researchers, Daniel Petro and Oscar Salazar, who work for the IT security consulting company Bishop Fox.
From an IDG News Service story on our site:
They bought a Galileo CompuSafe on eBay. The most egregious problem they found is a fully functional USB port on the side of the safe. That allowed them to plug in a keyboard and a mouse, which worked.
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