Hyundai vulnerability allowed remote hacking of locks, engine techcentral.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from techcentral.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers discovered flaws in a number of apps linked to car brands that allowed for personal details and remote control of vehicles using easily-obtained IDs
Western Digital Users Face Another RCE threatpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from threatpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Just last week,
PetaPixel reported that an exploit was discovered through the WD community pages that caused some WD My Book Live users to have all of their data deleted. A further investigation alleges that the data wipes were not caused by just a single vulnerability, but a second critical security bug that let hackers remotely perform factory resets without the use of a password.
According to the investigation, a developer from the Western Digital team actually coded a requirement for a password before a factory reset was performed, but that requirement was later removed.
“The undocumented vulnerability resided in a file aptly named system factory restore. It contains a PHP script that performs resets, allowing users to restore all default configurations and wipe all data stored on the devices,”
Hackers exploited two flaws in event that remotely wiped Western Digital devices engadget.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from engadget.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.