John Gallagher

ThroughTek, Round 2:  Need for Automated Remediation

Today’s news I had to read twice – devices using a ThroughTek chipset contain a significant vulnerability that needs to be addressed quickly or else cyber criminals could take control. I read twice because I first thought “wait a minute, I blogged on this a couple months ago”. Upon further reading it turns out this is a brand new vulnerability, and potentially a more devastating one – impacting over 83 million devices and enabling devices to be remotely controlled and exploited.

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