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Hacking competition dedicated to the automotive industry
Hacking competition dedicated to the automotive industry

The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) expands Pwn2Own competition as threats to connected cars continue to grow. Trend Micro runs the hacking competition, which specifically targets the automotive industry and hacking teams to promote security research. Trend Micro, one of the world's leading providers of cybersecurity solutions, is expanding its Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) Pwn2Own hacking competition with another event. Under the name "Pwn2Own Automotive", there will be an independent competition for the first time at the Automotive World Tokyo in January 2024 on the cyber security of networked vehicles. The goal is the connected car ecosystem, which increasingly contributes to…

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Danger check: self-hacking tool for companies
Danger check: self-hacking tool for companies

A new, free self-hacking tool allows companies to safely hack their own network and check their DNS security. EfficientIP introduces the tool for detecting the risk of data exfiltration in companies. The free self-hacking tool, a DNS-based data exfiltration application, is free for companies to use. Designed as an easy-to-use online tool, the application enables organizations to easily and securely conduct their own 'ethical hack' of their DNS systems and associated security measures. In this way, vulnerabilities can be uncovered that lead to a greater security gap in the network and thus also to a data leak...

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Competition: Hacked home office devices
Competition: Hacked home office devices

The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) organized the hacking competition Pwn2Own, which quickly showed the danger that home devices, for example in the home office, pose for the security of companies. Trend Micro's ZDI uncovers vulnerabilities and helps mitigate them. Trend Micro announces the winners of its recent Pwn2Own hacking contest, held in Toronto late last week. During the event, the Japanese IT security provider's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) awarded prize money worth almost one million euros for the discovery of 63 zero-day vulnerabilities. If these vulnerabilities were exploited in real-world cyberattacks, the potential damage would be...

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New firmware boot kit in the wild
Hacker UEFI Toolkit firmware boot kit

Kaspersky has discovered a new firmware boot kit in the wild. It is based on the Hacking Team's Toolkit. It has been used to attack diplomats and members of NGOs in Europe, Africa and Asia. Kaspersky researchers have uncovered an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) espionage campaign that uses a firmware boot kit. The malware was detected by Kaspersky's UEFI / BIOS scanning technology, which can also detect unknown threats. The scanning technology identified a previously unknown malware in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), an essential part of every modern computing device today, which makes it very ...

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it-sa 365: Keynote “The Future of Hacking”
it-sa logo 365

The new dialogue platform it-sa 6 will start on October 365th as a year-round information and dialogue offer for the IT security industry and IT security experts. The Special Keynote, which has developed into a real crowd puller at the it-sa Expo & Congress in Nuremberg in recent years, will be held virtually this year as the highlight of the it-sa 365 Launch Days. Keynote speaker is ex-Anonymous and LulzSec member Jake Davis. On Thursday, October 8, from 12:00 p.m. to 13:00 p.m., Jake Davis shows how hackers tick. In his special keynote “The Future of Hacking” he will…

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