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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. If you take a look at the global market for IoT, you can easily spot the trend. IoT devices are exposed to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. IoT is a complicated concept.

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Topic-specific policy 7/11: backup

Notice Bored

when I read the recommendation for a topic-specific policy on backup. If you already have a backup policy (or something with a vaguely similar title), I urge you to dig it out at this point and study it (again!) Is your backup policy exclusively about backing up computer data , most likely digital data from corporate IT systems?

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IoT Secure Development Guide

Pen Test Partners

Business decisions will need to be made as to whether extra costs are worthwhile in a secure software development life cycle. IoT Design Frameworks 2.2. Transport Layer Security (TLS) 3.2. Secure Boot 3.5. In essence, it is a view of the application and its environment through the lens of security. Frameworks 2.1.

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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

You have the disaster recovery (DR) site, backups, and storage area network (SAN) snapshots. As you try each one, that pit in your stomach grows as you experience the worst feeling in IT: the realization you have no backup for recovery. Your backups, the backup server, and all the backup storage — all encrypted by ransomware.

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Ukrainian Blackjack group used ICS malware Fuxnet against Russian targets

Security Affairs

Industrial and enterprise IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty reported that the Ukrainian Blackjack hacking group claims to have damaged emergency detection and response capabilities in Moscow and beyond the Russian capital using a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet. . The group also disrupted the central command-dispatcher and database.

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QNAP addressed a critical flaw that allows compromising NAS devices

Security Affairs

The vulnerability affects certain legacy versions of HBS 3 Hybrid Backup Sync , it was reported to the vendor by Ta-Lun Yen of TXOne IoT/ICS Security Research Labs. “An improper access control vulnerability has been reported to affect certain legacy versions of HBS 3 (Hybrid Backup Sync).

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Microsoft Fights Off Another Record DDoS Attack as Incidents Soar

eSecurity Planet

IoT Devices Multiply Attacks. In addition, the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is giving hackers a large number of targets to be hijacked and absorbed into a botnet that can then be used in increasingly larger DDoS attacks. See the Top IoT Security Solutions for 2022. Skilled Adversaries Raise Stakes.

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