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Do you have a Wifi alarm clock?

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iank.org says they have serious flaws specifically the Loftie alarm clock This is apparently in the alarm clock file structure: $ strings config.arm64_v8a.apk … assets/icons/clock.svg _setClient@91206165 _TapStatusTrackerMixin@113288344 https://fwbek2lb0a213kbewqoit.byloftie.com/Loftie_EVT.bin # <——- get:digitMatcher ListTileThemeData get:endOfFrame _drawPicture@15065589 … If you notice the weird address in the file: fwbek2lb0a213kbewqoit.byloftie.com This kind of programming is not a good idea.  her … Read more

Botnet Takes Advantage of Cheap IoT Devices

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Yes I am assuming IoT devices from china are ‘cheap’. Look at this FBI IC3 headline: Home Internet Connected Devices Facilitate Criminal Activity probably important to know – what is the Botnet? “BADBOX 2.0 was discovered after the original BADBOX campaign was disrupted in 2024. BADBOX was identified in 2023, and primarily consisted of Android … Read more

Learning From Lewis & Clark College Portland Oregon Misfortune

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JDSupra among other ezines on the Internet have cataloged the Lewis & Clark College in Portland hack Basically in March 2023 the administrators or others at the college learned that there was unauthorized access of their computer systems. Today 2 years later a story came out in the 2600 magazine “the Hackers Quarterly” The article … Read more

How Did CCP Unit 61398 Hack Us?

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why discuss now?    This is the FBI 5 Unit61398 From left, Chinese military officers Gu Chunhui, Huang Zhenyu, Sun Kailiang, Wang Dong, and Wen Xinyu indicted on cyber espionage charges. Above Wanted notices included to show this is not an aberration but a consistent policy by CCP. I have written about Chinese PLA (People’s … Read more

Another Router being exploited now: Archer TP-Link

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Hackernews has another story about exploited devices: Archer routers  This router   the Archer TP link “The botnet exploits a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in TP-Link Archer routers (CVE-2023-1389) to spread itself automatically over the Internet,” security researchers Ofek Vardi and Matan Mittelman said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News.”   As … Read more