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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

On the immediate horizon, IoT systems will bring us autonomous vehicles and something called “digital twins” – virtual representations of physical objects infused with artificial intelligence. Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

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Machine Identities are Essential for Securing Smart Manufacturing

Security Boulevard

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) puts networked sensors and intelligent devices directly on the manufacturing floor to collect data, drive artificial intelligence and do predictive analytics. Strong IoT device authentication is required to ensure connected devices on the IoT can be trusted to be what they purport to be.

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Cybersecurity Industry News Review – March 28, 2023

CyberSecurity Insiders

The top risk is insecure network settings, followed by unaddressed common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), access rights issues, as well as insecure user management and authentication. DDoS attacks were 16% of the total, while phishing and supply-chain attacks were each involved in 10% of attacks.

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Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-party, Ransomware and AI Attacks Will Get Worse

eSecurity Planet

Third-party security, ransomware , artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the past. “A near-future event could cause a massive depopulation of internet-connected devices.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. Canada, India, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil, and every member state of the European Union.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

DNS communicates in plain text and, without modification, DNS assumes that all information it receives is accurate, authentic, and authoritative. To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results. MFA methods should be carefully selected.

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Security Roundup September 2021

BH Consulting

Single-factor authentication and using known or default passwords, are “exceptionally risky” practices (the third was unsupported software). Instead, it recommends multi-factor authentication for accessing internet-exposed systems. Last year, the World Economic Forum argued for a move to passwordless authentication.

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