• Security
  • By Sergiu Gatlan
  • September 28th, 2018
Stealthy and Persistent Torii IoT Botnet Infects Devices via Telnet

Stealthy and Persistent Torii IoT Botnet Infects Devices via Telnet

The malware can compromise a large array of architectures

  • Security
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 7th, 2016
Botnets of Embedded Devices Are Brute-Forcing Telnet Ports

Botnets of Embedded Devices Are Brute-Forcing Telnet Ports

Attacks from over 120,000 unique IPs detected in June 2016

Over 15 Million Devices Offering Free Telnet Access Found Online

Over 15 Million Devices Offering Free Telnet Access Found Online

SSH adoption is gaining ground over Telnet

  • Security
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 7th, 2015
Default Hard-Coded Credentials Expose Seagate Wireless Hard Drives to Attacks

Default Hard-Coded Credentials Expose Seagate Wireless Hard Drives to Attacks

Seagate fixes the problems through a firmware update

PuTTY 0.63 Released After a Two-Year Break

PuTTY 0.63 Released After a Two-Year Break

The latest version of PuTTY can be downloaded from Softpedia

PuTTY 0.62 Beta Released

PuTTY 0.62 Beta Released

Security fix: sensitive data no longer retained in memory

PuTTY 0.62 Beta Comes with High Priority Security Fix

PuTTY 0.62 Beta Comes with High Priority Security Fix

The earlier versions failed to wipe sensitive information from the memory