Cybersecurity

A leaky database spilled 2FA codes for the world’s tech giants | TechCrunch

A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts. The Asian technology and internet company YX International manufactures cellular networking equipment and provides SMS text message routing […]

Cybersecurity

Critical Manufacturing Vulnerabilities Surge 230% in Six Months

Threat actors are targeting operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) environments with increasing sophistication and have a growing attack surface of vulnerabilities to help them do so, Nozomi Networks has warned in a new report. Its Assessing the Threat Landscape report covers the second half of 2023 using internally sourced data from honeypots and customer […]

Data Center

5 hyper-converged infrastructure trends for 2024 | TechTarget

Hyper-converged infrastructure technology has taken big strides since emerging more than a decade ago, finding a home in data centers looking to ease procurement headaches and management chores. Vendors originally positioned the technology as a simple-to-deploy, all-in-one offering that combined compute, storage and networking with a hypervisor. The essential selling points around simplicity remain the […]

Data Center

5 hyper-converged infrastructure trends for 2024 | TechTarget

Hyper-converged infrastructure technology has taken big strides since emerging more than a decade ago, finding a home in data centers looking to ease procurement headaches and management chores. Vendors originally positioned the technology as a simple-to-deploy, all-in-one offering that combined compute, storage and networking with a hypervisor. The essential selling points around simplicity remain the […]

Data Center

5 hyper-converged infrastructure trends for 2024 | TechTarget

Hyper-converged infrastructure technology has taken big strides since emerging more than a decade ago, finding a home in data centers looking to ease procurement headaches and management chores. Vendors originally positioned the technology as a simple-to-deploy, all-in-one offering that combined compute, storage and networking with a hypervisor. The essential selling points around simplicity remain the […]

Cybersecurity

PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions

Jan 17, 2024NewsroomFinancial Data / Vulnerability The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the Chinese firm owing to their rapid deployment in Poland, […]

Cybersecurity

High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Bosch Thermostats and Smart Nutrunners

Jan 15, 2024NewsroomOperational Technology / Network Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Bosch BCC100 thermostats and Rexroth NXA015S-36V-B smart nutrunners that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered the flaw in Bosch BCC100 thermostats last August, said the issue could be […]

Cybersecurity

APIs are increasingly becoming attractive targets – Help Net Security

APIs, a technology that underpins today’s most used sites and apps, are being leveraged by businesses more than ever—ultimately opening the door to more online threats than seen before, according to Cloudflare. APIs power the digital world—our phones, smartwatches, banking systems and shopping sites all rely on APIs to communicate. They can help ecommerce sites […]

Cybersecurity

Vulnerability affecting smart thermostats patched by Bosch

German technology manufacturer Bosch fixed a vulnerability affecting a popular line of smart thermostats in October, the company disclosed this week. Researchers from Bitdefender discovered an issue with Bosch BCC100 thermostats last August which lets an attacker on the same network replace the device firmware with a rogue version. Bogdan Botezatu, director of threat research […]