the-internet-of-things-is-a-complete-mess-and-how-to-fix-it 
Troy Hunt
JULY 13, 2021
Plus, it's definitely added to our lives in terms of the things it enables us to do; see them in part 5 of my IoT unravelled blog series. But it also remains a complete mess and I want to demonstrate why based on some recent experiences: Let's say you want an IoT light. With a different app.
Troy Hunt
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
In part 1 of this series, I posited that the IoT landscape is an absolute mess but Home Assistant (HA) does an admirable job of tying it all together. I've been directly involved in the discovery or disclosure of a heap of these and indeed, security is normally the thing I most commonly write about. Let's dive into it.
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ForAllSecure
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Fuzzing makes it possible to locate vulnerabilities even in “safe” environments like Erlang, a language designed for high availability and robust services. The flaw was discovered and reported directly to the administrators of Log4j, widely used open source tool, who then patched it. The trouble is, details of this leaked prematurely.
Security Boulevard
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Securing applications is not the easiest thing to do. The first step to fixing vulnerabilities in your application is to know what to look for. Today, let’s take a look at 30 of the most common vulnerabilities that affect Java applications, and how you can find and prevent them. Photo by Cookie the Pom on Unsplash.
Troy Hunt
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. I mean what's the remaining gap? In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 24, 2022
There are 20,000 or more new software and hardware vulnerabilities every year, yet only a few hundred might be actively exploited. It falls to IT security teams to determine where those vulnerabilities lie in their organization and which ones they need to prioritize. That process can be overwhelming. What are the Main Steps Involved in VMaaS?
Scary Beasts Security
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
The reliability is provided by the presence of a turing complete “scripting” inside a music player. I’ve got a lot of experience participating in so-called “co-ordinated disclosure”, where the receiving vendor takes as long as they wish to fix a vulnerability. x player for NSF music files. More on that below. We’ll cover why below.
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