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CD-indexing cue files are the core of a serious Linux remote code exploit

Enlarge / Cue files used to be much better-known, back when we all used CD-Rs to make legal backup copies of material that we owned outright. Getty Images reader comments 6 with It has been a very long time since the average computer user thought about .cue files, or cue sheets, the metadata bits that… Read More »

Go ahead and unplug this door device before reading. You’ll thank us later.

Enlarge / The Akuvox E11 reader comments 84 with Share this story The Akuvox E11 is billed as a video door phone, but it’s actually much more than that. The network-connected device opens building doors, provides live video and microphone feeds, takes a picture and uploads it each time someone walks by, and logs each… Read More »