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If you’re using this router brand, you may want to disconnect now — security researchers found more vulnerabilities and a hardcoded password in Totolink hardware

Many vulnerabilities have been recently found in Totolink routers, but the problems aren’t anything new.

You might not give a second thought to the brand of your router, but that may all change after security experts have warned they are not all created equal.

And one brand in particular – Totolink – seems to have been plagued with a worrying amount of vulnerabilities found in its products, including some very severe ones.

The Totolink A3300R wireless router, for example, has command injection vulnerabilities that have recently been discovered, and the Totolink A8000RU was found to have a hardcoded password that could be accessed by anyone.

Troubled past

What’s also worrying is that, at time of writing, the SSL certificate for the company’s official website isn’t even trusted by Chrome browsers, possibly suggesting a sign of compromise, or at least poor site maintenance on the part of the Totolink.

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) maintained by NIST shows a large number of recently added flaws to Totolink hardware. The A3300R seems to be particularly affected, with many command injection vulnerabilities.

Two critical vulnerabilities were also found in the N200RE, both of which can lead to buffer overflow attacks. Both entries also contain a note stating that the vendor was contacted about the flaws, “but did not respond in any way.”

The issues with Totolink routers date back years, and have been implicated in large scale attacks. For instance, a variant of the infamous Mirai botnet, known as Beastmode, was found exploiting flaws in Totolink routers in Spring 2022. Another botnet, known as Zerobot, also exploited flaws in them and routers from other manufacturers, such as D-Link and Huawei, in late 2022.

In 2021, multiple flaws were also discovered in Totolink software, which could allow for remote attacks. This software was part of the A300R2 router. It was noted as being easily exploitable via a remote attack, letting threat actors execute arbitrary code.

Problems with Totolink routers even go as far back as 2015, when many of its routers were found to have flaws, some even reaching back six years before the date of this particular discovery.

Totolink is owned by Hong-Kong company Zioncom Holdings Limited. The website for this firm is also flagged by Chrome as not having a valid SSL certificate.

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Sega of America plans to lay off 61 workers

Sega of America plans to lay off 61 employees in March, according to a California WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) report. Eurogamer and X user @WhatLayoff first reported on the government notice, which lists two separate job cuts classified as “layoff permanent” on March 8. It’s the latest chapter in a year-plus of brutal job cuts in the tech and gaming worlds.
California’s WARN Act, passed in 1988, requires employers to provide 60 days’ notice for upcoming layoffs — allowing the affected workers time to prepare. It applies to companies with at least 75 full-time or part-time workers and covers layoffs of 50 or more people within 30 days. It isn’t clear precisely how many workers Sega of America employs.
The WARN report lists separate layoffs (one of 12 and another of 49 workers) at two Irvine, CA-based Sega of America offices. The job cuts both have a “notice” date of January 8, and the reports were “processed” by California on January 29 with “effective” dates of March 8.
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Sega in November after the publisher allegedly said it would lay off 80 unionized workers. At the time, the organization said Sega presented the proposal in a captive audience meeting, describing the circumstances as “a clear case of bad faith bargaining.”
The Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA (AEGIS-CWA), the union representing Sega workers in the US, wrote on X Tuesday that the company announced the latest plans “a few months ago,” suggesting the layoffs posted in the WARN notice are part of the same roadmap. The union said Sega plans to outsource quality assurance and some localization work “in a move that would significantly impact our workforce.”
Sega hasn’t publicly confirmed the layoffs. Engadget reached out to a company representative, and we’ll update this article if we hear back.
The layoffs come less than two months after Sega said it would refresh its classics Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage. Eurogamer notes the company’s Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, which launched last week, has been a high mark for the publisher.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/sega-of-america-plans-to-lay-off-61-workers-180100573.html?src=rss

Sega of America plans to lay off 61 employees in March, according to a California WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) report. Eurogamer and X user @WhatLayoff first reported on the government notice, which lists two separate job cuts classified as “layoff permanent” on March 8. It’s the latest chapter in a year-plus of brutal job cuts in the tech and gaming worlds.

California’s WARN Act, passed in 1988, requires employers to provide 60 days’ notice for upcoming layoffs — allowing the affected workers time to prepare. It applies to companies with at least 75 full-time or part-time workers and covers layoffs of 50 or more people within 30 days. It isn’t clear precisely how many workers Sega of America employs.

The WARN report lists separate layoffs (one of 12 and another of 49 workers) at two Irvine, CA-based Sega of America offices. The job cuts both have a “notice” date of January 8, and the reports were “processed” by California on January 29 with “effective” dates of March 8.

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Sega in November after the publisher allegedly said it would lay off 80 unionized workers. At the time, the organization said Sega presented the proposal in a captive audience meeting, describing the circumstances as “a clear case of bad faith bargaining.”

The Allied Employees Guild Improving SEGA (AEGIS-CWA), the union representing Sega workers in the US, wrote on X Tuesday that the company announced the latest plans “a few months ago,” suggesting the layoffs posted in the WARN notice are part of the same roadmap. The union said Sega plans to outsource quality assurance and some localization work “in a move that would significantly impact our workforce.”

Sega hasn’t publicly confirmed the layoffs. Engadget reached out to a company representative, and we’ll update this article if we hear back.

The layoffs come less than two months after Sega said it would refresh its classics Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage. Eurogamer notes the company’s Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, which launched last week, has been a high mark for the publisher.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/sega-of-america-plans-to-lay-off-61-workers-180100573.html?src=rss

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Harness Backtesting for Optimal Risk Management in Forex

The concept of risk management in the forex trading market is broad. Over the years, we’ve seen experts in the field introduce several ways it can be achieved, like using stop loss, leverage, and maximizing demo accounts. However, it surely
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The concept of risk management in the forex trading market is broad. Over the years, we’ve seen experts in the field introduce several ways it can be achieved, like using stop loss, leverage, and maximizing demo accounts. However, it surely […]

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