Getty Images reader comments 98 As many as 91,000 LG TVs face the risk of being commandeered unless they receive a just-released security update patching four critical vulnerabilities discovered late last year. The vulnerabilities are found in four LG TV models that collectively comprise slightly more than 88,000 units around the world, according to results ..
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reader comments 27 with Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from networking firm Akamai said Thursday. Both of the vulnerabilities, which were previously unknown to their manufacturers and to the security research community at large, allow for ..
Enlarge / The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark logos, which may or may not have an assigned order at the moment. Which one most says “secure” to you? Federal Communications Commission reader comments 38 with The goal of the new US Cyber Trust Mark, coming voluntarily to Internet of Things (IoT) devices by the end of ..
Enlarge / This guy? This guy can be tricked into offering remote control if you give it a long name. But he’s too old for his maker to care much about that. reader comments 66 with I once co-owned a coworking space. The space had doors with magnetic locks, unlocked by a powered relay. My ..
Enlarge / The Monitor-IO in its natural habitat, glowing green to let you know that everything is copacetic with the network to which it’s connected. Jim Salter reader comments 28 with Share this story Monitor-IO was a gadget that did one thing: live near a router and tell you how its network is doing. It ..
Getty Images reader comments 128 with Share this story A market-leading garage door controller is so riddled with severe security and privacy vulnerabilities that the researcher who discovered them is advising anyone using one to immediately disconnect it until they are fixed. Each $80 device used to open and close garage doors and control home ..
Enlarge / NordicTrack owners aren’t giving up the fight just yet. Sam Whitney | Getty Images reader comments 58 with 40 posters participating Share this story JD Howard just wanted to watch cloud security tutorials. Howard, a construction industry worker on sabbatical, spent $4,000 on a NordicTrack X32i treadmill, lured in by its 32-inch HD ..
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Bloomberg | Getty Images reader comments 35 with 31 posters participating Share this story Televisions, laptops, and tablets have been in high demand during the Covid-19 pandemic, as people worked and learned via Zoom, socialized over Skype, and binged on Netflix to alleviate the lockdown blues. But all that extra screen time also helped set ..
Elena Lacey reader comments 75 with 57 posters participating Share this story Over the last few years, researchers have found a shocking number of vulnerabilities in seemingly basic code that underpins how devices communicate with the Internet. Now, a new set of nine such vulnerabilities are exposing an estimated 100 million devices worldwide, including an ..