Tag: security

Google will boost Android security through firmware hardening

Google has presented a plan to strengthen the firmware security on secondary Android SoCs (systems on a chip) by introducing mechanisms like control flow integrity, memory safety systems, and compiler-based sanitizers. […]

Source: Google will boost Android security through firmware hardening


Searching for Exposed ASUS Routers Vulnerable to CVE-2021-20090, (Fri, Nov 26th)

Over the past 7 days, my honeypot captured a few hundred POST for a vulnerability which appeared to be tracked as a critical path traversal vulnerability in the web interfaces of routers with Arcadyan firmware. If successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated remote actors to bypass authentication and add the router to the botnet Mirai botnet.

Source: Searching for Exposed ASUS Routers Vulnerable to CVE-2021-20090, (Fri, Nov 26th)