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MY TAKE: Why consumers are destined to play a big role in securing the Internet of Things

The Last Watchdog

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. The drivers of IoT-centric commerce appear to be unstoppable. Count on the wide deployment of IoT systems to continue at an accelerated rate. This is coming.

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The Growing Presence (and Security Risks) of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As most of us know, IoT devices are on the rise in enterprise networks. According to McKinsey & Company , the proportion of organizations that use IoT products has grown from 13 percent in 2014 to 25 percent today. The issue is that these tens of billions of new devices will likely amplify the inherent security risks of IoT.

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic. At the other end of the spectrum, the proliferation of connected medical devices and the internet of medical things (IoMT) have dramatically accelerated. A pandemic of cyber attacks. Tue, 04/26/2022 - 05:19. The risks of non-compliance.

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Millions of home routers on Mirai Botnet Radar

CyberSecurity Insiders

According to a research carried out by Maryland based Cybersecurity firm Tenable, hackers are targeting millions of home routers to add them to the Mirai botnet radar that is used to launch DDoS Cyber attack campaigns. Mirai is a kind of malware that turns connected devices into remotely controlled devices called Bots.

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MY TAKE: Here’s how ‘bulletproof proxies’ help criminals put compromised IoT devices to work

The Last Watchdog

Related: How botnets gave Trump 6 million faked followers To put it plainly, this represented a spike in cyber attacks bouncing through ordinary Internet-connected devices humming away in homes across America. These attacks were carried out by cyber criminals leveraging an insidious new attack tool: bulletproof proxies.

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Top 5 Attack Vectors to Look Out For in 2022

Security Affairs

Threat actors are continually looking for better ways to target organizations, here are the top five attack vectors to look out for in 2022. Malicious actors are continually looking for better ways to carry out successful cyber attacks. IoT Devices. Many organizations don’t have visibility into all of their IoT devices.

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Episode 244: ZuoRAT brings APT Tactics to Home Networks

The Security Ledger

Cyber attacks on small office and home office (or SOHO) routers aren’t new. But for all its bluster, Mirai and the IoT botnets that followed it were pretty simple creatures. The goal was to build a platform for future, external attacks – not probing the home and small business networks the routers fronted.

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