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Linksys home routers targeted and compromised in active campaign

February 13, 2014

A yet undetermined vulnerability affecting certain Linksys WiFi routers is being actively and massively exploited in the wild to infect the devices with a worm dubbed …

Sochi security forbids journalists to use private Wi-Fi

February 10, 2014

The Winter Olympics in Sochi are under way, and we have already written about the cyber risks awaiting visitors and viewers. But what about the ones awaiting the visiting …

Cyber risks awaiting visitors and viewers of Sochi 2014 Olympics

February 5, 2014

The 2014 Winter Olympics are set to start on Friday in Sochi, a Russian city located on the shores of the Black Sea. There have been many controversies regarding this choice …

The basics of digital wireless communication

January 10, 2014

The aim of this talk by Clemens Hopfer from the 30th Chaos Communication Congress is to give an understandable insight into wireless communication, using existing systems as …

New Linksys 802.11AC WRT router allows open source customization

January 7, 2014

Linksys is bringing back the heritage of the best-selling router of all time – the Linksys WRT54G but updated and modernized it with the most leading edge available …

SanDisk releases 64GB wireless flash drive

January 7, 2014

SanDisk announced the 64GB SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive. In addition, recently released software updates enhance the performance and functionality of both the SanDisk …

Wirelessly expand your iPad to 1TB

January 6, 2014

LaCie announced Fuel: a go-anywhere wireless hard drive for iPad, iPhone and Mac. Without requiring Internet access, the LaCie Fuel adds 1TB of external storage capacity to …

Critical backdoor in Linksys and Netgear routers found

January 3, 2014

A backdoor in some Linksys and Netgear wireless routers that allows malicious users to reset the devices’ configuration to factory settings and, therefore, to default …

Travelers are exposing their data on public networks

November 18, 2013

While aware of the risks, U.S. travelers are not taking the necessary steps to protect themselves on public Wi-Fi and are exposing their data and personal information to cyber …

Alliance dedicated to wireless biometric authentication launched

November 14, 2013

Natural Security has announced the launch and newly elected governing board of the world’s first open Alliance dedicated to secure transactions based on wireless and …

Video: Practical exploitation using a malicious SSID

October 4, 2013

In this video from DerbyCon, Deral Heiland discusses the leveraging of SSIDs to inject various attacks into wireless devices, and management consoles. The type of injection …

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