We’re one week further along, and we hope everyone is well out there. Time for another security roundup amid the coronavirus lockdown.

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3D printing turns red hot In what was surely a very serious piece of research and not just an excuse to set stuff ablaze, the team at the aptly-named CoalFire have demonstrated how a 3D printer could be tricked into bursting into flames remotely.

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By hijacking the firmware update process of a 3D printer called the Flashforge Finder, a miscreant could potentially flash the machine’s software to remove its temperature constraints. The next time the printer was used, it could heat up to the point of catching fire. Scary stuff, but keep in mind you need to be on the same Wi-Fi network as the device, and spoof the online repository it fetches its firmware from in […]

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