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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

This incident demonstrates the possibility of attacks being conducted to cause physical harm, and various threat actors may be leveraging electronic or fully digital components. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? Media sources reported that explosives had been concealed within the devices. Why does it matter?

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P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices

Krebs on Security

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. These prefixes identify different product lines and vendors that use iLnkP2P.

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Cybersecurity Risks of 5G – And How to Control Them

eSecurity Planet

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. IoT products are notoriously vulnerable appliances because the build prioritizes ease of use and connectivity.

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Cyber Defense Magazine: Exclusive Interview with Robert Herjavec

Herjavec Group

“Long-distance teleportation has been recognized as a fundamental element in protocols such as large-scale quantum networks and distributed quantum computation,” said the Chinese team. When it came to human interfaces in personal computing, it’s obvious that Steve Jobs was a visionary. Meanwhile back on earth….

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Letting the Internet of Things into Your Home

SiteLock

I’ve decided it might be time to consider a letting the Internet of Things (IoT) into my home. Even those on the fence have begun to embrace IoT timepieces and vehicles. If you’ve decided that it’s time to let the IoT into your home, here are some things you should be asking before making a purchase. someone else’s computer).

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Cyber Security in the Era of the Smart Home Devices

Cytelligence

As we enter a more connected reality, we need to be increasingly aware that smart home and IoT (Internet of Things) devices may be convenient but are accompanied by additional critical vulnerabilities. Smart Home and IoT devices are increasingly being targeted by hackers as the weak point of any home or enterprise security network.

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Web application firewalls (WAF) serve as a barrier to protect applications from various security threats.

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