SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2025

We know IoT can be insecure. In fact, years ago I gave a talk on the IoT insecurities, and it's still true today. However, this isn't just another IoT security story, as the impacts can have a ripple effect across critical infrastructure, putting teams on their heels. Yes, you read that right.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

While security teams layer essential preventative measures, resilience measures also need to be implemented in an architecture to reduce the impact of ransomware attacks on your backups. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture. Figure 2: Resilient VLAN architecture. How could this have been prevented? Does this add latency?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

Digital transformation - cloud and IoT exposure: The healthcare industry's rapid digitization is expanding the attack surface. Hospitals and clinics are increasingly adopting cloud-based systems, electronic health records, telehealth services, and Internet of Things (IoT) medical devices. Regional outlook: where is growth happening?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Security Labs discovered a new IOT bot named “GUCCI”. It seems like the IOT botnet is named after an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods. The IOT threat detection engine picked the infection IP has shown below hosting number of bins for different architectures. Figure 1: GUCCI Bot Binaries. Inference.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

LW: Can you frame the separate issue of securing service accounts? Tamir: Service accounts (machine-to-machine connections) are a big problem. The accounts that enable machines to communicate with each other are highly privileged accounts — and no humans are operating these accounts.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Howevertraditional anomaly detection has been caught in a Sisyphean cycle: build multiple bespoke models for each account, tune endlessly, and still face diminishing returns as threats and the operating environment evolve. The Stratosphere use case where the DNN performed least well is a very specific IoT dataset.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It can differentiate departments, such as HR, accounting or the executive suite, as well as keep track of user roles, such as manager, clerk or subcontractor. This comes after the partners have spent the past couple of years fine tuning an architectural design that’s compatible with existing IT systems, he says.

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Adam Shostack

MARCH 5, 2020

More precisely, since I don’t have an Amazon developer account, I’m going to look at the blog post, and infer some stuff about the underlying documentation.). There’s a tremendous amount of guidance for IoT makers, and the lists are not well aligned. But these lists of what you should do are not unique to Amazon.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

As it happens Microsoft wrote about the Mozi botnet , which is essentially a Mirai variant, going after Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE gateways by using clever persistence techniques that are specifically adapted to each gateway’s particular architecture. Vulnerabilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

Use cases of secure IoT deployment. In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55. Use case 1: Fortune 500 Healthcare Company.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

Researchers from FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new IoT botnet tracked as RapperBot which is active since mid-June 2022. RapperBot has limited DDoS capabilities, it was designed to target ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 architectures. ” continues the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Key Components and Functions in a Zero Trust Architecture. Zero Trust architectural principles. NIST’s identity-centric architecture , I discussed the three approaches to implementing a Zero Trust architecture, as described in the NIST blueprint SP 800-207. Core Zero Trust architecture components.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2022

What further compounds an already complex architectural and security landscape is the fact that critical infrastructure industries in various countries tend to be either partially or fully government controlled; with many providing “essential services” such as Healthcare, Water, Power, Emergency Services and Food production.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Exposing the Internet of Things (IoT) Universe. Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems. Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – ‘“It’s The Equivalent of Feeling Like You’re In Jail”: Lessons From Firsthand & Secondhand Accounts Of IoT-Enabled Intimate Partner Abuse’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

When I looked at what Amazon and Google and Microsoft are pushing for it’s really a lot of horsepower going into the architecture and designs that support that service model, including the building in of more and more security right up front. Another is accountability and traceability back to a source. BK: For example….?

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

More precisely, since I don't have an Amazon developer account, I'm going to look at the blog post, and infer some stuff about the underlying documentation.) There's a tremendous amount of guidance for IoT makers, and the lists are not well aligned. For example, let's compare to the UK's " Code of Practice for consumer IoT security."

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It's a conceptual architectural approach built upon an ecosystem that creates an environment for a holistic security posture. Zero Trust is a combination of technologies, implemented within an architecture developed to support a holistic security initiative and strategy. Zero Trust is not a technology, product, or solution.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. In a recent survey, 93% of respondents admitted to knowingly increasing their companys cybersecurity risks.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

The surge was fueled by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grammarly, and other generative AI tools, which accounted for the majority of AI-related traffic from known applications. Figure 1: Top AI applications by transaction volume Enterprises blocked a large proportion of AI transactions: 59.9%

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Windows still leads overall due to its commanding market share, accounting for 41.4 ” Linux powers many cloud-based architectures , and most IoT devices run very minimalist Linux distributions that consist of a Linux kernel and a few core functions, making them attractive for botnets and other similar campaigns.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. Masters reported that very little slowed him down as he discovered ways to make unauthenticated requests for private account data of Peloton cyclers including names, birth dates, gender, location, weight and workout stats.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Coffing notes that the recently discovered ThroughTek Kalay vulnerability compromised 83 million IoT devices , which better machine identity management could have prevented. The rise of automation and the IoT have resulted in enterprises unintentionally expanding their attack surface. Zero Trust Architecture.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2021

This type of attack doesn’t take into account how complex your business’s program is if one of your vendors has been breached. One proven way to overcome these kinds of attacks is by implementing zero trust architecture. The upcoming 5G network will give rise to a huge number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Written in Go, it is flexible enough to generate binaries compatible with various architectures. However, in view of its ability to infect MISP and ARM systems, it also poses a threat to IoT devices. Our analysis suggests that the primary target of NKAbuse is Linux desktops.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2025

Modern IT environments have long been evolving beyond the on-premises data center to include cloud infrastructure, mobile devices, internet-of-things (IoT) systems and operational technology (OT). To get a close look at this shift, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy regularly interviews cybersecurity leaders around the world.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Specifically, CISA and USCG assessors had the most success gaining initial access, attaining network permanence, evading defenses and moving laterally by using valid accounts, phishing schemes and default credentials – all simple attack methods. and abroad has been dismantled. and in other countries.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2024

Additionally, there sectoral privacy regulations in the United States, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and state level regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). RELATED: Cybersecurity Labeling of IoT Devices: Will It Happen in 2023? ]

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

5G and IoT Traffic Between API Services and Apps Will Make Them Increasingly Lucrative Targets. Examples include: 5G mobile applications – 5G connectivity and deployment of IoT endpoints have increased dramatically providing higher capacity for broader connectivity needs. billion IoT devices are expected to be in use worldwide by 2025.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

RADIUS and TACACS+ apply to specific types of endpoints, but the ZTNA-as-a-Service product works for all kinds of devices, including Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) endpoints, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, operations technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and industrial IoT (IIoT).

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Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

Well, it did exist , but was never officially adopted because it used the same 32-bit architecture as its predecessor. Device manufacturers, too, should look to account for accelerated IPv6 adoption when it comes to securing their products. This is especially true for IoT devices. By the way…whatever happened IPv5?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Attempted access to the company network can come from remote workers using unsecured devices, other mobile devices in the field, Internet of Things (IoT) environments, and other uncertain sources. This is the essence of the Zero Trust security architecture, which is gaining popularity in virtually all sectors.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 7, 2024

What was once a relatively straightforward task of defending a defined network perimeter has transformed into a complex battle to secure a vast, interconnected web of IT, OT and internet of things (IoT) systems where the lines between each are increasingly blurred. Similarly, IoT devices introduce unique complexities.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

I think it’s super important that organizations are being held accountable for looking after our data. Different flavors of cloud architectures, sprawling IoT systems and the coming wide deployment of 5G networks add up to not just Big Data, but Very Big Data. million, on average.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

All of Kottmann’s tweets related to the Verkada hack contain the #OperationPanopticon hashtag, which references the panopticon , a prison architecture that allows a supervisor to have full view of its inmates without them knowing that they’re being watched. ” Twitter suspended Kottmann’s account after they leaked Tesla security footage.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

Specifically, CISA and USCG assessors had the most success gaining initial access, attaining network permanence, evading defenses and moving laterally by using valid accounts, phishing schemes and default credentials all simple attack methods.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Additional findings from the report include: Interest in C++ grew by 13% in the past year due to its dominance in game programming and the internet of things (IoT). The topic areas with the greatest growth included software architecture (19%), Kubernetes (15%), and microservices (13%).

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