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A Chinese router manufacturer is under fire tonight after security researchers at VulnCheck uncovered what they're calling ENDLESSDOORS — a built-in backdoor in Zbtlink firmware that allows remote root access and reverse shells. Zbtlink has pulled the vulnerable downloads and called it a maintenance feature, but researchers say every firmware image is exploitable, and the advice is blunt: replace the hardware.
In the courts, OpenAI is pushing back hard against Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, and their strategy is pointed. Newly filed exhibits argue that Apple's own security practices were so lax — including letting a manager access a departed engineer's iCloud account — that the company can't credibly claim its information was properly protected in the first place.
And in orbit, the slow-motion rescue of NASA's Swift observatory is making quiet progress. The LINK spacecraft sent to raise Swift's orbit had been spinning dangerously fast, but Katalyst Space has brought that spin down from nine degrees per second to under one and a half. A software update is next, and the team says they're being careful not to make things worse.
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