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7 Top Tips for Accelerating your IoT Projects in 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

Although this does take time, with training and upskilling programs , insightful workshops, and “Hacker Fridays” (where employees can try to hack a specific smart device), team members will become more capable of dealing with the new diagnostics support work, as well as any general IoT problems. 5 Be aware of your operating landscape.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Here we had a situation where an attacker could easily control moving parts within a car from a remote location.

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5 Best Bot Protection Solutions and Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

By analyzing the data collected, bot protection systems can gain a deeper understanding of bot behavior and develop more effective strategies for detecting and preventing bot attacks. Bot protection requires a multi-layered approach that involves a combination of these techniques and measures.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 1: Education

Troy Hunt

The Red Cross Blood Service breach gave us our largest ever incident down here in Australia (and it included data on both my wife and I). CloudPets left their MongoDB exposed which subsequently exposed data collected from connected teddy bears (yes, they're really a thing). Oh - and it uses a password of 12345678.

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Top 10 Cloud Privacy Recommendations for Businesses

McAfee

As businesses continue to accelerate to the cloud, there’s no better time to review all aspects of cloud data collection, use, storage, transfer and processing. In a non-SSO service, users often call the helpdesk team when they’ve forgotten their passwords , so SSO has the added benefit of reducing call volume.