Huntress reports active attacks abusing Gladinet’s fixed cryptographic keys to forge tickets and gain remote code execution ...

Two phrases often heard around the computing halls are the phrases “hard wired” and “soft coded”. If something in an application is hard coded, it is bad – or so goes the consensus. Hard coding ...

Up to 46,000 Internet-accessible digital video recorders (DVRs) that are used to monitor and record video streams from surveillance cameras in homes and businesses can easily be taken over by hackers.

While it's good that more remote sensors are communicating with each other, in some cases providing sensitive information in real time, bad security practices among manufacturers of those devices ...

D-Link has issued a firmware hotfix to address multiple vulnerabilities in the DIR-3040 AC3000-based wireless internet router. Following successful exploitation, they can let attackers execute ...

A security researcher has developed a tool that can automatically detect sensitive access keys that have been hard-coded inside software projects. The Truffle Hog tool was created by U.S.-based ...

LAS VEGAS --A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with ...

The number of detected hard-coded secrets increased by 67% last year compared to 2021, with 10 million new secrets discovered in public GitHub commits in 2022. That’s according to GitGuardian’s State ...

A security research firm has found hundreds of Android apps that are leaking sensitive secret keys and tokens, which could be used and abused by hackers. Fallible, a Delaware-based security firm, ...

Cisco has released security updates to address critical security flaws allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in using hard-coded credentials or default SSH keys to take over unpatched devices.

From Juniper to Fortinet and Cisco, a lot of companies have been cited for having shipped products that contain hard-coded passcodes, which poses security risks to the enterprise. This common ...

A security researcher has developed a tool that can automatically detect sensitive access keys that have been hard-coded inside software projects. The Truffle Hog tool was created by U.S.-based ...