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  • Talk about a hostile environment… It’s £70k+ but you’ll really sweat for it For the brave – or perhaps foolhardy – senior IT jobs hunters there is an opening at the UK Home Office for a Deputy Director of IT Operations in a lovely ’70s era highrise in Croydon.… The Register – Security

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  • Running the IoT Hack Lab at SecTor has been a highlight of my year since 2015. Although we won’t be back this year to fill our corner of the MTCC, I’m happy to be teaching A Beginner’s Guide to Reversing with Ghidra as part of the SecTor 2020 virtual conference October 19-20. Ghidra is an […]

  • ESET researchers found serious security vulnerabilities in three different home hubs: Fibaro Home Center Lite, HomeMatic Central Control Unit (CCU2) and eLAN-RF-003. Some of the flaws could be misused by an attacker to perform MitM attacks, eavesdrop on the victim, create backdoors, or gain root access to some of the devices and their contents. In […]

  • ‘Unnecessary scaremongering’ but still some work to be done Reports that the Home Office’s Brexit app contains “serious vulnerabilities” that could expose the phone numbers, addresses and passport details of EU citizens are overblown, say security experts.… The Register – Security