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Analyze IoT/OT device firmware with Microsoft Defender for IoT

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Jul 24, 2023

Consider an organization that has thousands of endpoints on their network that are running 10-year old, unpatched SSH servers. Or when a critical vulnerability like log4shell is discovered, having no...

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SocInABox

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Aug 05, 2023

for the few tests I've done it's pretty cool.

For example you can download an image from any linksys router and test it because they seem to be linux based.

I'm curious about -Prayas question about RTOS - many of the RTOS kernels are linux based so does that qualify? Does anyone have a firmware link I can test?

Many vendors aren't friendly about sharing their firmware and others encrypt the image so it can't be tested easily.