Bugs and working from home. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Fede Kirschbaum from Faraday Security sits down with Dave to discuss their research on "A vulnerability in Realtek's SDK for eCos OS: pwning thousands of routers." The team at Faraday found a vulnerability that made it to DEFCON 30, labeling it high severity. With more and more people working from home for their companies, the research team went looking for where there may be vulnerabilities as employees are working from home. The research states that the team was "seeking and reporting security vulnerabilities in IoT devices, which led to the finding of an exploitable bug in a consumer-grade router popular in Argentina." They also stated in the research that it was escalating quickly and shares about how protecting home networks is important while working remotely. The research can be found here: A vulnerability in Realtek´s SDK for eCos OS: pwning thousands of routers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities
1:34.1	solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly
1:38.0	evolving cyberspace.
1:39.8	Thanks for joining us. Our research team was eager to know what the most common
1:51.9	routers were actually running.
1:54.0	And when we're talking about routers, we're talking about the Wi-Fi router you have currently in your home.
2:00.0	That's Federico Kirschbaum, CEO and co-founder at Faraday. The research we're discussing today
2:07.2	is titled A Vonerability in Real Tech's SDK for ECOS OS, honing thousands of routers. And that kind of about kicked off because specifically in
2:29.2	cybersecurity we know that I would be vice is sometimes they're built without security in mind.
2:35.8	But we never thought it would be this bad.
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