If turned truly malicious, Wardle’s keychain exploit would likely be the second-stage of an attack, on top of an initial hack that would run rogue code on an Apple machine. He claimed it wasn’t hard to get malicious code running on a Mac today.
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posted a video of the hack — a password exfiltration exploit — in action. Passwords are stored in the Mac’s Keychain, which typically requires a master login password to access the vault. But Wardle has shown that the vulnerability allows an attacker to …
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Mirai DDoS botnet powers up, infects Sierra Wireless gateways …
ZDNet Sierra Wireless AirLink Gateways are vulnerable to the debilitating botnet, of which source code has been made public. |
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Mirai DDoS botnet powers up, infects Sierra Wireless gateways
ZDNet Mirai, a malware and botnet combination recently publicized after a 620 Gbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the prominent security blog Krebs on Security, enslaves thousands — if not millions — of vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT … |