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Mnemonic
Company blog · mnemonic.no/blogsecurity
Mnemonic is the company blog at mnemonic.no, writing about security. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mnemonic's blog for technical background on backdoors in consumer devices, such as a children's smartwatch that covertly takes snapshots and surveillance cameras with known backdoors.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
mnemonic is a European cybersecurity company providing end-to-end security services, from managed detection and response to threat intelligence, incident response and consulting.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-products/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-12
What Hacker News says?
Mnemonic | ONSITE (Oslo, Norway) | Python Developer | Full Time | https://www.mnemonic.no/career/ Mnemonic is the leading security provider in the nordics. We provide managed security services and develop the platform that ties them all together. We are looking for Python developers to complete our tooling team, providing integrations around our Argus platform and ad-hoc tooling for internal and customer use. This p…
Comment linking /career/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Exploiting Scratch with a malicious image (2021) as a story · 65 points
HN discussionI work in a norwegian (infosec) company [1] and we have hired several english (only) speaking persons to get the best talents. Norway have quotas for people with specific skills and it is my understanding that it is not that hard to get a Visa. I also know several other companies, e.g. Opera Software, are mostly english speaking and most large companies in Norway within Oil&Gas, and Finance have english as a corpora…
Comment linking /en/Andre-sprak/English/Career/Jobs-at-mnemonic/
on “All Norwegians become crown millionaires, in oil saving landmark”Submitted Exposing covert surveillance backdoors in children’s smartwatches as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Obviously if their spying is proven, nobody will use it This is demonstrably false. There are already installations of surveillance camera with known backdoors but they remain installed. See, for instance, https://www.mnemonic.no/blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-prod... , https://xplora.no/
Comment linking /blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-products/
on “Drones used by farmers could be spying”Submitted Abusing dynamic groups in Azure AD for privilege escalation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAdditional technical background is available in the following blogpost: https://www.mnemonic.no/blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-prod...
Comment linking /blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-products/
on “Undocumented backdoor that covertly takes snapshots found in kids’ smartwatch”Submitted SVGs are dangerous; RCE through XSS in MIT's Scratch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBlogpost with technical background: https://www.mnemonic.no/blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-prod...
Comment linking /blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-products/
on “Backdoorer the Xplora: Bugs in smart watches for kids”Submitted #WatchOut: serious security flaws discovered in GPS watches for children as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mnemonic Security podcast, Episode 49: Can threat intelligence be automated? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion