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Avoiding Vulnerabilities: A Cybersecurity Vigilante's Perspective
I've made a decision - no more vacations, no more conferences like TwitchCon or Defcon for me. Every time I attend these events, a major vulnerability seems to surface. Just recently, while I was on vacation in New Jersey, the Crowdstrike bug came out. And when I was at TwitchCon, chatting with John Hammond about the wonders of computers over a burrito, my buddy sent me a text about a critical exploit in the Mediatek Wi-Fi chipset.
This CVE-2024 vulnerability allows for remote code execution on any device using the software development kit (SDK) of these two chips. In this video, I want to dive into what this means, how it affects the wireless device landscape, and how you can mitigate it yourself.