InfoSec News Nuggets 04/12/2022

Raspberry Pi just made a big change to boost security Raspberry Pi has made a change to its operating system Raspberry Pi OS that removes the default username and password. Until now, the default username and password for the tiny computers has been respectively "pi" and "raspberry", which made setting up a new Pi device simple but also potentially made the popular internet-connected devices easier for remote attackers to hack them through techniques like password spraying. "Up until…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 01/12/2022

Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed An undersea fiberoptic cable located between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has been put out of action in a still-mysterious incident. The outage on the subsea communications cable — the furthest north of its kind anywhere in the world — follows an incident last year in which different cables linking an undersea surveillance network off the Norwegian coast…
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