Hackers reveal critical vulnerabilities in Huawei routers at Defcon

Computerworld Security: July 31, 2012
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Hackers reveal critical vulnerabilities in Huawei routers at Defcon

Security researchers disclosed critical vulnerabilities in routers from Chinese
networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei at the Defcon
hackers conference on Sunday.
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2. Quarter of users see no benefit in updating software
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3. Darlene Storm: Def Con: How to hack all the transport networks of a country
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4. Persistent router botnets on the horizon, researcher says at Defcon
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Facebook spars with advertiser over click fraud allegation

Facebook said Monday it has defenses in place to detect click fraud despite one
company's claim it detected suspicious clicks on its advertisements billed to it
by the social-networking site.
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Quarter of users see no benefit in updating software

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Darlene Storm: Def Con: How to hack all the transport networks of a country


At Def Con, 24-year-old Alberto García Illera gave an
amazing presentation called "How to hack all the transport networks
of a country." The critical vulernabilities that allowed such an intense
hack were mindblowing and like one epic exploit after another. Security FAIL!
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Persistent router botnets on the horizon, researcher says at Defcon

Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office
(SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating
them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied firmware.
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