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The Surveillance Invasion: IoT and Smart Devices Stealing Corporate Secrets

Security Boulevard

Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture at CISO Global “Hey Alexa, are you stealing my company’s data?” In an age where manufacturers have decided that just about every device needs to be “smart,” it’s becoming difficult to avoid the data collection and privacy invasion that are often baked into these devices.

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How Will $1.9 Billion for Cybersecurity Protect American Infrastructure?

CyberSecurity Insiders

Section 40121: Enhancing Grid Security through Public-Private Partnership – The Secretary (Energy), in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, State regulatory authorities, industry stakeholders, and the Electric Reliability Organization, shall carry out a program— (A) to develop, (..)

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. Of course, some nations have more capability than others to sift through huge amounts of data they’re collecting.

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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

The attacks targeted 553 different types of devices from 212 manufacturers, ranging from digital signage and smart TVs to set-top boxes, IP cameras, and automotive multimedia systems. Zscaler’s ThreatLabz research team also saw such devices as smart refrigerators and musical furniture connected to the cloud and open to attack.

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Unleashing the Power of a Security Data Lake

SecureWorld News

The data collected from various sources is then analyzed using various tools. Main features of SDL There are five key features that SDL should have: The key component of SDL is the automation of data collection and parsing. Viewing this data manually is unrealistic. Information security data analysis and reporting.

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Preparing for IT/OT convergence: Best practices

CyberSecurity Insiders

Many organizations have opted to converge their IT and OT environments, which can yield many benefits such as efficiency and more elegant architecture; at the same time, these decisions are not without risk. • Enterprise visibility to ensure that all data collected integrates to a single pane of glass. Conclusion.

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Mystic Stealer

Security Boulevard

In particular, the code checks for the manufacturer ID string (with a length of 12 bytes) for the following values: “XenVMMXenVMM” (Xen HVM) “VMwareVMware” (VMware) “Microsoft Hv” (Microsoft Hyper-V) “ KVMKVMKVM “ (KVM) “prl hyperv “ (Parallels) “VBoxVBoxVBox” (VirtualBox) This detection code is likely derived from Pafish.