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New Mirai botnet targets industrial routers with zero-day exploits
New Mirai botnet targets industrial routers with zero-day exploits A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of previous … Read more Published Date: Jan 07, 2025 (13 hours, 6 minutes ago) Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this…
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BIOS flaws expose iSeq DNA sequencers to bootkit attacks
BIOS flaws expose iSeq DNA sequencers to bootkit attacks BIOS/UEFI vulnerabilities in the iSeq 100 DNA sequencer from U.S. biotechnology company Illumina could let attackers disable devices used for detecting illnesses and developing vaccines. The Illumina … Read more Published Date: Jan 07, 2025 (14 hours, 47 minutes ago) Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article. CVE-2023-1968…
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CISA warns of critical Oracle, Mitel flaws exploited in attacks
CISA warns of critical Oracle, Mitel flaws exploited in attacks CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against critical vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic Server and Mitel MiCollab systems that are actively exploited in attacks. The cybersec … Read more Published Date: Jan 07, 2025 (15 hours, 4 minutes ago) Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in…
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An overview of virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) in Linux
Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) is a network virtualization technique allowing traffic isolation at the layer 3 (L3) of the OSI model by creating independent routing and forwarding domains. It is essentially the combination of a separate routing table and associated network interfaces. Other networking techniques exist but are operating at a different levels—such as…
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NIST Database Can Help Increase Recycling of Textiles and Clothing
Picture this: You have a bag of heavily used clothes that can no longer be donated taking up space in your closet, so you drop it off at your local recycling center. But what happens to that bag of clothes? You might assume that the clothes would get Go to Source
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Making Sure Your Patch Cables Are Ready for RF Work
How do you know that your patch cables are good? For simple jumper wires, a multimeter is about all you need to know for sure. But things can get weird in the RF world, in which case you might want to keep these coaxial patch cable testing tips in mind. Of course, no matter how…
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Toot-B-Gone, With The FartMaster 3000
Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a little… windy. Do you try to drop it quietly and hope nobody says the rhyme, do you bolt for the door, or can you tough it out and hold it in? Never fear,…
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Regular (Expression) Chess
[Nicholas Carlini] found some extra time on his hands over the holiday, so he decide to do something with “entirely no purpose.” The result: 84,688 regular expressions that can play chess using a 2-ply minmax strategy. No kidding. We think we can do some heavy-duty regular expressions, but this is a whole other level. As…
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Bending Light, Bending Time: A DIY Polarizer Clock
Imagine a clock where the colors aren’t from LEDs but a physics phenomenon – polarization. That’s just what [Mosivers], a physicist and electronics enthusiast, has done with the Polarizer Clock. It’s not a perfect build, but the concept is intriguing: using polarized light and stress-induced birefringence to generate colors without resorting to RGB LEDs. The…
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Gaze Upon This Omni-directional Treadmill’s Clever LEGO Construction
Want to see some wildly skillful LEGO construction? Check out [Banana Gear Studios]’ omni-directional treadmill which showcases not only how such a thing works, but demonstrates some pretty impressive problem solving in the process. Construction was far from straightforward! A 9×9 grid of LEGO shafts all turning in unison is just one of the non-trivial…