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News Alert: Swissbit introduces small-capacity memory for IIoT, smart city applications

The Last Watchdog

Typical applications include green IIoT technologies like charging stations, smart meters, and PV inverters, for which only a small amount of memory is required to run boot software or to communicate with cloud applications. The proliferation of IIoT technologies is particularly evident in smart cities. Westford, Mass., 2 and 2.5”

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Patch now! Insecure Hikvision security cameras can be taken over remotely

Malwarebytes

In a detailed post on Github , security researcher Watchful_IP describes how he found that the majority of the recent camera product ranges of Hikvision cameras are susceptible to a critical, unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, even with the latest firmware. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co.,

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The U.S. Is Falling Behind on Encryption Standards – And That’s a Global Problem

eSecurity Planet

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is charged with setting cybersecurity standards and certifying products, yet is woefully behind on both. As quantum computing technology continues to develop, this problem will become a crisis if it can’t be resolved now. Apple corecrypto Module v11.1

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST) made a public request for potential ciphers. By 2001, the NIST dubbed it the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and officially replaced the use of DES.