Displaying items by tag: Firmware

Vulnerabilities have been identified in Bosch BCC100 Thermostat during a security audit by Bitdefender, which says the vulnerability lets an attacker on the same network replace the device firmware with a rogue version.

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COMPANY NEWS: Claroty, the cyber-physical systems protection company, today announced it has been recognised as a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for CPS Protection Platforms.

COMPANY NEWS: Mission-critical security market leader, Permaconn has announced the general availability of its RAPIDlink 4G secure managed IoT service for system integrators, installers and managed service providers who are looking to develop new revenue streams without the time and runaway mobile data costs that typically come with managing multiple devices.

UPDATED with new information from Samsung: When a whole stack of Samsung users in South Australia and "two other" states found their phones seemingly bricked and not booting after upgrading to One UI 5.0 and Android 13, there was trouble at the Not OK software corral, so what happened?

GUEST INTERVIEW: A security solution that returns devices to their desired state of safety and efficacy after malicious attacks or user error is a reality thanks to Absolute Software, even protecting firmware from breaches and more, with cybersecurity evangelist Dr Torsten George joining iTWireTV to explain what self-healing really means and why it's no longer a pipe dream.

GUEST INTERVIEW: A security solution that returns devices to their desired state of safety and efficacy after malicious attacks or user error is a reality thanks to Absolute Software, even protecting firmware from breaches and more, with cybersecurity evangelist Dr Torsten George joining iTWireTV to explain what self-healing really means and why it's no longer a pipe dream.

COMPANY NEWS: Absolute Software has announced new partnerships with leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to strengthen resiliency of their endpoint applications with Absolute Application Persistence-as-a-Service (APaaS). As APaaS partners, Ericom, Utopic, and WinMagic are leveraging Absolute’s firmware-embedded technology to monitor and automatically heal their mission-critical security solutions - ensuring they remain healthy, installed, and working effectively across their customer bases.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

The BBC has questioned whether Microsoft's publication of a post claiming that firmware attacks are on the rise is a red herring to distract from the issues the company is having with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Microsoft's new security chip, announced last week, will have an impact on hardware-only attacks, an American security professional says, adding that it could also assist in firmware security, but would result in added costs.

VENDOR NEWS: If we’re to rethink data’s potential, we must also rethink the systems used to store and process it, writes Seagate.

IP surveillance vendor Genetec has updated its Firmware Vault camera firmware update service to cover a much broader range of cameras.

IP surveillance vendor Genetec has warned that more than two-thirds of security cameras may be running superseded firmware, leaving them vulnerable to attack.

American security firm CrowdStrike has announced it is integrating the ability to detect firmware attacks in its endpoint protection product Falcon, a first of sorts.

Research by security firm Eclypsium shows that vacated cloud servers are not properly wiped by hosting providers and may be used as an intrusion channel by bad actors.

AirPlay 2 on Sonos means you can do a stack of Apple-related stuff on your Sonos speakers, adding to its flexibility and giving Sonos additional ammo against Apple's own HomePod.

An issue in firmware builds for Citrix's NetScaler ADC product has led to the company removing the 10.1, 10.5, 11.0, 11.1 and 12.0 builds from its download area.

With HomePods in internal testing by Apple employees, a reportedly accidental leak of firmware destined for those test units only has revealed Apple secrets making many happy.