Realtek Wi-Fi SDK vulnerabilities affect 65 vendors and hundreds of thousands of IoT devices

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Realtek SDK vulnerabilities affect hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. Image credit: Realtek
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Realtek SDK vulnerabilities affect hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. Image credit: Realtek

Flaws affecting devices, from IP cameras to residential gateways, travel routers, smart lightning gateways, Wi-Fi repeaters and connected toys now patched

Taiwanese chip designer Realtek has released patches to address four critical security vulnerabilities in its Wi-Fi software development kits (SDKs) that are used in almost 200 Internet of Things (...

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