Tag: Kill Switch
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AWS Kill Switch: Open-source incident response tool
AWS Kill Switch is an open-source incident response tool for quickly locking down AWS accounts and IAM roles during a security incident. …
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Hacker Finds Kill Switch for Submachine Gun–Wielding Robot Dog
Motherboard reached out to d0tslash to find out how they hacked the robot dog. The power supply in the video is an external power …
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Hacker Finds Kill Switch for Submachine Gun Wielding Robot Dog
Motherboard reached out to d0tslash to find out how they hacked the robot dog. The power supply in the video is an external power …
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VPNs: should you use them?
We are going to talk today about something you’ve likely heard of before: VPNs, or Virtual Private …
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WannaCry Kill Switch Researcher Faces New Hacking Charges
A man credited with helping to prevent the spread of WannaCry has been hit by more hacking charges in the US. Marcus Hutchins, the …
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Memcached DDoS: This ‘kill switch’ can stop attacks dead in their tracks
Video: US service provider survives largest DDoS attack in history …
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Memcached Flaw Kill Switch Could Foil DDoS-ers
Researchers claim to have discovered a way of mitigating a vulnerability in Memcached servers which is responsible for two of the biggest …
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Memcache Flaw Kill Switch Could Foil DDoS-ers
Researchers claim to have discovered a way of mitigating a vulnerability in Memcached servers which is responsible for two of the biggest …
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Hit the road – with your insurer and lender keeping an eye on your driving
We’ve read about how researchers successfully hijacking the control of vehicles’ onboard computers and collecting data on the movement of the vehicle or even rendering the target vehicle immobile, dead where it is parked. But these days you don’t have to be some kind of cyberwhizzkid to pull off that kind of trick. As more and…
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Registering a Domain Accidentally Triggered Ransomware’s Kill Switch
A new and aggressive form of ransomware started infecting computers late last week. The UK’s national Health Service (NHS) and Spanish telco Telefónica were among the most high-profile victims of the WannaCry malware, also known as WanaCrypt0r 2.0. As bad as the infection was, it could have been much worse if not for a security…
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#WannaCry Roars Back After Killing the Kill Switch
The WannaCry global ransomware pandemic has a new wrinkle: After being stopped in its tracks over the weekend thanks to a built-in kill switch, new variants are popping up that don’t contain that failsafe—meaning the scourge shows no sign of slowing. Read full news article on Infosecurity
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