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Forescout
Company blog · forescout.com/blogsecurity
Forescout is the company blog at forescout.com, writing about security. Since 2019, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Amnesia: TCP/IP Stacks Breed Critical Vulnerabilities in IoT, OT”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
The only automated cybersecurity company that continuously identifies, protects and ensures the compliance of all managed and unmanaged connected assets – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT – so you can more effectively manage cyber risk and mitigate threats.
Most-linked posts?
- Amnesia: TCP/IP Stacks Breed Critical Vulnerabilities in IoT, OT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
- Can AI Create PLC Attacks? Yes, but It's Not That Easy Yet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-03
- Sun: Down – A Dark Side to Power Grids2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-28
What Hacker News says?
Multiple questions inside the same packet are quite common in DNS-SD based multicast queries. The idea there is to save DNS packets so that you only ask for a pointer (PTR) to a service identifier and get as a response all information that you need (address via A/AAAA, hostname and port via SRV, API version and necessary parameters via TXT etc). My point was exactly about the QDCOUNT field because its intent clearly…
Comment linking /blog/forescout-and-jsof-disclose-new-dns-vulnerabilities-impacting-millions-of-enterprise-and-consumer-devices/
on “How to use dig”Submitted Amnesia:33 – TCP/IP Vulnerabilities Impacting Millions of IoT, OT and IT Devices as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe white paper from Forescout (PDF warning): https://www.forescout.com/company/resources/amnesia33-identi...
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on “Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed”Submitted Anatomy of a Hacktivist Attack: Russian-Aligned Group Targets OT/ICS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three New BGP Message Parsing Vulnerabilities Disclosed in FRRouting Software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sun: Down – A Dark Side to Power Grids as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New critical operational technology vulnerabilities found on NicheStack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amnesia: TCP/IP Stacks Breed Critical Vulnerabilities in IoT, OT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can AI Create PLC Attacks? Yes, but It's Not That Easy Yet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can AI Create PLC Attacks? Yes, but It's Not That Easy Yet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forescout Sun Down Research Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A probe into Chinese-connected devices in US networks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New DNS Vulnerabilities, Impacting Millions of Enterprise and Consumer Devices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forescout Labs Releases the Project Memoria TCP/IP Stack Detector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amnesia33: TCP/IP Stacks Breed Critical Vulnerabilities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forescout Discovers Multiple Vulnerabilities in DTEN Conferencing Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sabotaging IoT Devices Like Philips Hue in Smart Home Environments as a story · 1 points
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