Two phrases often heard around the computing halls are the phrases “hard wired” and “soft coded”. If something in an application is hard coded, it is bad – or so goes the consensus. Hard coding ...

The number of detected hard-coded secrets increased by 67% last year compared to 2021, with 10 million new secrets discovered in public GitHub commits in 2022. That’s according to GitGuardian’s State ...

A security researcher has developed a tool that can automatically detect sensitive access keys that have been hard-coded inside software projects. The Truffle Hog tool was created by U.S.-based ...

Cisco has released security updates to address critical security flaws allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in using hard-coded credentials or default SSH keys to take over unpatched devices.

Up to 46,000 Internet-accessible digital video recorders (DVRs) that are used to monitor and record video streams from surveillance cameras in homes and businesses can easily be taken over by hackers.

D-Link has issued a firmware hotfix to address multiple vulnerabilities in the DIR-3040 AC3000-based wireless internet router. Following successful exploitation, they can let attackers execute ...