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 ...

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 ...

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.