Tag: security
DSL router patch hides backdoor instead of closing it
Last Christmas Eloi Vanderbeken of Synacktiv Digital Security gave the owner of 24 models of DSL modems that their equipment have a backdoor that allowed to send administrative commands to the routers without a password. The list of affected modems include home models from Netgear, Cisco (branded Cisco and Linksys alike) and Diamond.…
Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint spoofed
Another phone with fingerprint authentication, the same spoofed fingerprint to bypass it. After the Chaos Computer Club released their finding on how to bypass the fingerprint authentication of the iPhone 5S only 2 days after it was released, it was now the turn for Galaxy S5 to suffer similar faith only 4…
Obama leaves loophole open to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities
Barack Obama is said to have left a big loophole in a directive telling the american national security and law enforcement communities to disclosure vulnerabilities they find in software. This directive is supposed to open an exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need.” – that the NSA sees…