SecureWorld News

JUNE 14, 2022

I love the possibilities that Internet of Things (IoT) products bring to our lives. But I'm also very concerned about the associated security and privacy risks that IoT products inherently bring to those using them when controls do not exist or are not used to mitigate the risks. Consider just a few recent statistics.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. Connected things are what make the IoT – sensors, cameras, wearable electronics, medical devices, automatic controls. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect. The IoT is not making the job of securing networks any easier.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 9, 2019

The number of flaws found in WordPress and its associated plugins have tripled since 2017, while Internet of Things vulnerabilities dropped significantly, according to data collected by Imperva.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide. Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. And fantastic new IoT-enabled services will spew out of the other end.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Seismic monitoring equipment is vulnerable to common cybersecurity threats like those faced by IoT devices, a new research paper warns. Non-encrypted data, insecure protocols and poor user authentication mechanisms are among the security issues that leave seismological networks open to breaches, the authors note.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

IoT applications have grown in size, complexity, and functionality over the last decade. In early IoT installations, networks of sensors, wireless sensor networks, and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) devices were deployed in small to medium-size deployments within an enterprise.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Hackenproof, the Estonian cybersecurity company that found the data trove online, announced their discovery on their blog. The data was found on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that allows users to look up and access “power plants, Smart TVs, [and] refrigerators.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Speaking the same in an interview on Radio 4, Mr. Moore said that the Xi Jinping led nation was conducting espionage through its home-made products like CCTV equipment, smart phones, IoT devices that are being used on a global note. The post China setting up data traps says UK appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and other low-power low-bandwidth needs, designed for small scale projects which need wireless connection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The vast majority (84%) of enterprises are now using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies – such as big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). The picture looks rather different, when we look at evolving threats in the context of big data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Invariably, Internet of Things (IoT) strategies form the backbone of those efforts. Enormous quantities of data can be generated by and collected from a wide variety of IoT devices. The diversity of IoT devices and lack of standardisation also poses challenges.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“ElasticSearch is a very common and widely used data storage and is prone to misconfigurations, which makes it accessible to anyone. This instance left sensitive data open and was already indexed via popular IoT [internet of things] search engines. Cases like these raise questions about corporate data collection practices.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 22, 2019

Tailit’s Tale of IoT Security Redemption. In our second segment this week: we’re used to hearing stories about connected device makers getting caught out with shoddy device security, insecure applications, dodgy data collection practices – or all three. You might want to give a listen to that podcast, as well.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

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. Photo by ullstein bild.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 23, 2023

This bill allows for "automatic consent," which opens the door to more abstract forms of user permission that can smartly bundle up related usage patterns for consent and make it easier to manage consent in IoT environments, such as home automation and connected cars. Enable data permissions that usefully anticipate the user's intentions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 14, 2021

With patients (particularly those with long term illnesses) unable to have their vitals checked in person, the number of connected medical devices that transmit data from one remote location to another has soared. On the connected medical devices side, the personal data these devices hold is a valuable target to malicious actors.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Data privacy is a fundamental right for Americans - but new emerging technologies like drone, IoT and facial recognition are introducing gray areas.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX) , a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed to protect industrial facilities from USB-borne threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

With copious amounts of data collected by healthcare facilities, cybercriminals often target such entities. Moreover, the healthcare industry collects unique data, known as Protected Health Information (PHI), which is extremely valuable. The healthcare industry might be known for the work it does to treat patients.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Amazon's Ring data collection policies are in the spotlight.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 24, 2021

By combining agent-based and agentless data collection, active scanning to track known assets, passive scanning to identify unknown assets, and APIs for automation, the Qualys Cloud Platform provides comprehensive asset discovery across your entire infrastructure, including on-premises, cloud, container, OT, and IoT.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

It combines EDR and endpoint protection platform (EPP) capabilities and operates across all aspects of a network, including endpoints, containers, cloud workloads and internet of things (IoT) devices. SentinelOne was named one of our Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

IoT vendor Wyze announced that one of its servers exposed the details of roughly 2.4 IoT vendor Wyze announced that details of roughly 2.4 ” Song pointed out that several of the things reported by Twelve are not true, for example he denied that Wyze sends data to Alibaba Cloud in China. million customers.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 22, 2021

When millions of people around the world were sent home to work at the onset of the global COVD-19 pandemic, they left behind not only empty offices but also a host of Internet of Things (IoT) devices – from smartwatches to networked printers – that were still connected to corporate networks and cranking away.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

66% of these vulnerabilities affect the OT domain, while the rest 34% affect IoT, IT and IoMT (Internet of Medical Things). According to a report from Claroty’s Team82 , during 2021 researchers discovered 1,439 new vulnerabilities, up by 110% from the previous year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2023

As companies continually expand to the cloud, remote endpoints, IoT, and virtual machines, visibility is difficult for human eyes. The vulnerability data collected through automation is also helpful when it comes to analyzing an attack. Not only that, but they also work much more quickly than humans.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 14, 2024

Enhanced Support for NIST Frameworks Integration Stakeholders need improved support in integrating NIST frameworks and resources, particularly in privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT). On the other hand, privacy risk concerns protecting individuals’ data and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

Fortinet notes that with the growing convergence of operational technology (OT) and IT at the network edge via remote access and IoT devices , “holding such systems and critical infrastructure for ransom will be lucrative but could also have dire consequences, including affecting the lives and safety of individuals.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rising implementations of cloud services and IoT systems, not to mention the arrival of 5G, has quickened the pace of software development and multiplied data handling complexities. In this milieu, even well-defended enterprises continue to suffer catastrophic data breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2018

Protecting the identities of applications is one of three major challenges that must be addressed to ensure trust and facilitate the adoption of transformational technologies employing the use of connected devices (machines) in the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) and DevOps environments.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As for less computer-savvy folk, do not expect privacy by default: even when legally obliged to provide privacy by default, enterprises whose bottom ine depends on data collection will continue to find loopholes to trick people into choosing less private settings.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I want to call out a slide from that course that defines personal data because it's important to understand what we're talking about here: Of course, personal data goes much further than this but that gives you an idea of what we're talking about protecting better here. Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2020

On a recent podcast, the SecureWorld News team interviewed The Privacy Professor Rebecca Herold about concerns she has around contact tracing apps and data collection by humans as part of a contact tracing effort. "Y Y ou can't preserve privacy if you can't control the data," Herold says.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2023

You register an IoT device, subscribe to a video-on-demand service, or arrange travel. These activities collect personally identifiable information. Some of these activities, like registering the IoT device, utilize the data it’s been fed to generate more data about your movements, heart rate, and calories burned.

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