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Unpatched AVTECH IP-Camera Flaw Exploited By Hackers For BOTNET Attacks
A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), the vulnerability in question, is a “command injection vulnerability found in the brightness function of AVTECH closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras that allows for remote code execution (RCE),” Akamai researchers Kyle Lefton, Larry Cashdollar, and Aline Eliovich stated.
Don’t Let Hackers Steal Your Personal Identify
Your personal identity (PI) is any identification, presented in numbers, icons or letters, that is used to describe you and only you. Your phone number, email address, Social Security number, and a host of other identifiers distinguish you from your neighbor, a fellow in Sri Lanka or your sister. Using any of the above should help differentiate you from others. Since too many people can have the same name, birth date, password or other descriptors, the above should further discern that it’s you, not somebody else with your PI.
New MOBOTIX Cactus Concept Cyber Protection Guide
MOBOTIX recently introduced the Cyber Protection Guide, a guideline now available for download that outlines how to configure MOBOTIX systems for maximum cyber security. MOBOTIX have released the guide to support their customers in light of the constantly increasing number of cyberattacks carried out against hardware and software through the Internet.
Hacking Institutes Of Higher Learning
Due to the fact that Universities and Institutes for Higher Learning have large amounts of legacy financial and health records, grant computer privileges to students with traditionally a lax security mindset, and house valuable research data hackers have taken notice. This is why higher education has become the second most targeted industry after Healthcare. Based on how stolen data can be monetized, various types of hackers have become interested for different reasons. In some cases, it has been nation-state actors that are more interested in the research data such as with the recent case of the Russian hacker known as Rasputin. In other cases, it has been an individual who was able to change passwords of email accounts or a disenfranchised student assistant who was terminated but maintained access to the system.
Hackers Hit D.C. Police Surveillance Camera Network, City Officials Disclose
Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump?s inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according to the police and the city?s technology office. City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15.