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MY TAKE: ‘Network Detection and Response’ emerges as an Internet of Things security stopgap

The Last Watchdog

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. trillion by 2026, up from $190 billion in 2018. And fantastic new IoT-enabled services will spew out of the other end. I’ll keep watch.

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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. Second place went to China (17%).

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Building a foundation of trust for the Internet of Things

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Invariably, Internet of Things (IoT) strategies form the backbone of those efforts. Enormous quantities of data can be generated by and collected from a wide variety of IoT devices. Finally, it is difficult to underemphasise the importance of encryption to protect sensitive data collected by IoT devices.

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

Krebs on Security

A review of the screenshots posted to the cybercrime forum as evidence of the unauthorized access revealed several Internet addresses tied to systems at the U.S. Other domains and Internet addresses included in those screenshots pointed to Miracle Systems LLC , an Arlington, Va.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Volt Typhoon Disrupts US Organizations, CISA Issues Alerts

eSecurity Planet

Using web shells, they attacked weak internet servers, specifically a Houston port. Reconnaissance Reconnaissance is the starting point of Volt Typhoon’s cyber campaign, characterized by thorough planning and data collection. government and defense institutions for intelligence gathering.

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Number of hacktivist attacks declined by 95 percent since 2015

Security Affairs

Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active , the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019.