Unpatched Flaw in Calix Fiber Gateways Lets Attackers Bypass NAT to Expose Internal Devices
Residential gateways and broadband routers form the first and often only line of defense protecting home and small office networks from direct Internet exposure. Security researchers have disclosed an unpatched vulnerability in widely deployed Calix GS7 XGS (GS5239XG) residential gateways that allows unauthenticated remote attackers on the public Internet to bypass Network Address Translation (NAT) […]
Evooo1Bot turns routers into SOCKS5 relays: what defenders should fix
A Mirai-derived botnet is turning residential and edge routers into SOCKS5 relays for criminal traffic, and quietly harvesting credentials along the way.
Azure Sphere OS 26.09 RC1 Brings Major Linux Kernel Upgrade
Microsoft released Azure Sphere OS version 26.09 RC1 for evaluation, and while the release notes say there are no customer-facing changes, the headline here is the major Linux kernel version bump under the hood. Kernel upgrades in the IoT security world are a bigger deal than they sound. Azure Sphere is Microsoft’s platform for securing […]
Azure Sphere OS 26.06 Now Generally Available
Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 has hit the Retail feed. Quiet update, but it matters if you are running IoT devices on Microsoft’s secured Linux platform. This one is OS-only — no SDK changes, no toolchain updates. Just a security and maintenance release delivered the same way all Azure Sphere updates arrive: over the air, […]