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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 7, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Bell Receives Patent for Telephone in 1876, and we present you with these top quality stories. From How Tethers USDT Became Essential While Meme-Stablecoins Became Compliant to Your Writing Has a Fingerprint—And This Cutting Edge AI Model Can Identify It, let’s dive right in. By @juancguerrero [ 2 Min read ] Regulatory gold stars or global adoption? Discover how Tethers market focus made it essential while meme-stablecoins became regulatory trophies. Read More. By…
The Fairfax County Government announced its new Federal Workforce Resource Hub in a LinkedIn post earlier this week. Fairfax County, Virginia is home to around 80,000 federal employees and over 3,800 federal contractors. This hub is designed to help those affected by the changes to federal services and employment, including residents, government employees, active military/veterans, contractors, nonprofits, and businesses. The Resource Hub includes information on unemployment, employment opportunities, healthcare coverage options, financial and basic needs help, mental health support, military/veteran resources, starting a business, and community involvement. Visit Fairfax’s Federal Government Resource Hub here.
US cities are warning of an ongoing mobile phishing campaign pretending to be texts from the city’s parking violation departments about unpaid parking invoices, that if unpaid, will incur an additional $35 fine per day. While parking scams have been around for years, a massive wave of phishing text messages has caused numerous cities throughout the US to issue warnings, including from Annapolis, Boston, Greenwich, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, San Diego, San Francisco, and many others. The current wave of texts started last December and has continued since, with BleepingComputer receiving a text targeting New York residents earlier this week. The…
Fernando Panizza // This was meant to be an OpenSSH how-to blog, but since I had time, I decided to read the man pages (manual pages that you can access on a Linux terminal by typing man ssh) and had fun chasing every possible rabbit hole while at it. While going through the man pages, I learned that it was possible to use SSH to set up VPN networks and decided to give it a try. Although I just learned this and haven’t used it on a test yet, I think it could be a nice to have resource, especially…
Increasing cyber threats and attacks have led modern organizations to focus on OT network monitoring, as it has emerged as a line of defense against cyber attackers. With the level of threats rising, the role of monitoring in OT (operational technology) cybersecurity can’t be overstated. Efficient monitoring provides organizations with critical visibility into the network traffic to detect anomalies, signs of cyber attacks, or equipment failure. This is even more critical across process control and ICS (industrial control systems) environments because failures here can be catastrophic. Advanced OT network monitoring is changing ICS security with the use of adaptive tools…
Undocumented hidden feature found in Espressif ESP32 microchip Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2025 Experts discovered an undocumented hidden feature in the ESP32 microchip manufactured by Espressif, which is used in over 1 billion devices. At the RootedCON, researchers at Tarlogic Innovation presented their findings on undocumented commands in the ESP32 microchip designed by the Chinese manufacturer Espressif. The hidden functionality could act as a backdoor, enabling impersonation attacks and persistent infections on devices like smartphones, smart locks, and medical equipment. Tarlogic also developed a tool for auditing Bluetooth device security across all operating systems. The experts warn that a hidden…
Isaac Burton // For as long as we have known about prototype pollution vulnerabilities, there has been confusion on what they are and how they can be exploited. We’re going to discuss some of the easiest ways to identify a prototype pollution vulnerability in the wild, which can lead to all kinds of exploitation! Prototype pollution can exist server side or client side. Server-side prototype pollution can be used to modify application control flow, which can be fun and rewarding to exploit. When a prototype pollution vulnerability is present client-side, it can be leveraged to perform cross-site scripting (XSS). In…
After a holiday spending frenzy, consumers have returned to a more normalized rate of spending, as measured in incremental borrowing on credit cards and other forms of debt. December saw a massive $37.1 billion increase in total credit, where revolving credit — the category that includes credit cards — surged at an annualized pace of 18.5%, after a 16.1% drop in November. The data suggests that consumers were loading up on dry tinder ahead of the year-end frenzy of gift giving and taking advantage of sales. On Friday (March 7), new data from the Federal Reserve revealed that overall credit…