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Having Confidence in Your Wireless Security

Cisco Security

As each day passes, wireless security becomes even more critical to the day-to-day operations of organizations. With the introduction of Wi-Fi 6, many organizations are shifting from a primarily wired infrastructure to one that focuses on worker mobility through wireless connectivity. The Challenges of Wireless Security.

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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. DDoS attacks aren’t going to go away anytime soon. Beyond DDoS. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3

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Update now! Ruckus vulnerability added to CISA’s list of actively exploited bugs

Malwarebytes

Along with six older vulnerabilities , the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has added a vulnerability in multiple Ruckus wireless products to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. This vulnerability reportedly impacts Ruckus ZoneDirector, SmartZone, and Solo Aps with Ruckus Wireless Admin panels version 10.4

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New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days

Security Affairs

Akamai discovered a new Mirai-based DDoS botnet, named InfectedSlurs, actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The probes were of low frequency and appeared to first attempt an authentication via a POST request and then, upon success, attempt a command injection exploitation.”

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

The Last Watchdog

Hacking collectives are very proficient at “exploiting weak authentication schemes to gain persistence inside of a targeted network,” Sherman says. Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Once they gain a foothold, they can move laterally and gain access to other enterprise assets.”

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Why Healthcare IoT Requires Strong Machine Identity Management

Security Boulevard

IoT Business News has also published a list of four types of medical devices that are susceptible to hacking which include: wireless infusion pumps, implanted devices, smartpens, and vital sign monitors. Compromised devices can be leveraged as part of a botnet or can contribute to a DDoS attack which can further hinder an organization.

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Attackers Exploit Flaw that Could Impact Millions of Routers, IoT Devices

eSecurity Planet

A path traversal vulnerability enables attackers to bypass authentication to the web interface, which could be used to access other devices on a home or corporate network. Most bad actors will use compromised devices to perform distributed vulnerability scanning, exploitation, password guessing or DDoS. A Pattern of Exploits.

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