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Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2017

Microsoft won’t patch the 20-year-old SMBv1 SMBloris flaw disclosed at DEF CON conference

Microsoft has announced that the SMBv1 SMBloris bug described at DEF CON won’t be patched because it could be fixed simply blocking incoming connections. Recently security researchers at RiskSense have identified a 20-year-old Windows SMB vulnerability they called SMBloris (a nod to the Slowloris DoS attack.), they presented their findings at the recent DEF CON hacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2017

Bypassing locking mechanisms of a smart gun with $15 worth of magnets

The hacker ‘Plore’ demonstrated that it possible to bypass security measures implemented by German manufacturer Armatix for its smart gun. The story I’m going to tell you demonstrates how fragile could be smart objects, some times cheap and off-the-shelf devices could be used to compromise them. This is the case of certain models of smart […]

DEF CON 25

Microsoft won’t patch the 20-year-old SMBv1 SMBloris flaw disclosed at DEF CON conference

Bypassing locking mechanisms of a smart gun with $15 worth of magnets

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DEF CON 25

Microsoft won’t patch the 20-year-old SMBv1 SMBloris flaw disclosed at DEF CON conference

Bypassing locking mechanisms of a smart gun with $15 worth of magnets

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recent articles

Hunters International ransomware gang shuts down and offers free decryption keys to all victims

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 52

Security Affairs newsletter Round 531 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

North Korea-linked threat actors spread macOS NimDoor malware via fake Zoom updates

Critical Sudo bugs expose major Linux distros to local Root exploits

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