The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Protocols and policies setting new parameters for trusted connections are being hammered out and advanced encryption, authentication and data protection solutions are being ramped up. Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures.

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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. The goal is then to analyse it and take impactful action.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: IoT exposures explained I’ve conversed several times with Jeff Hudson about this. APIs , the interface coding that allows two different machines to exchange data – for instance, an IoT device and a command server — are machines as well. By comparison, scant effort has gone into securing the latter.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Government isn’t eager to admit it, but there has long been an unofficial inventory of tech components and vendors that are forbidden to buy from if you’re in charge of procuring products or services on behalf of the U.S. Government. But the U.S. based firms.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. Below are the mitigations provided in the alert: Install updates for operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released. Use monitoring tools to observe whether IoT devices are behaving erratically due to a compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Given the ease with which these vulnerabilities might be exploited, rapid action is required to prevent broad assaults on both government and commercial networks. Twelve drivers can subvert security mechanisms, while seven enable firmware erasure in SPI flash memory, rendering the system unbootable.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

When access to this computing power falls into the wrong hands, things we take for granted, such as mobile banking, e-Shopping, IoT, traffic light control and electricity distribution will become vulnerable to device take-over as they are not strong enough to resist a quantum attack. What risks will this entail? How much time do we have?

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The message could appear be from a government agency, your bank, your place of worship, your gym, a colleague at work. If you use IoT devices, create a separate network on your router for them since they aren’t always the most secure connections to the outside world. It may look just like the real thing. Update Everything.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The vulnerabilities allow hackers, governments, or anyone with malicious intention to read files, add/remove users, add/modify existing data, or execute commands with highest privileges on all of the devices. CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . Firmware Analysis.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Governments, nonprofits, and schools—some forced to close their doors—didn’t escape unscathed. Services—a catch-all term encompassing service-providing sectors such as transportation, travel, finance, health, education, information, government, and a myriad of other industries—was targeted the most by cybercriminals.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. However, a growing number of botnet attacks are used against IoT devices and their connected networks. With over 600,000 devices, this botnet exposed just how vulnerable IoT devices could be and led to the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Ransomware & Data Theft Organizations worldwide continue to feel the pain of ransomware attacks, although many ransomware gangs may be shifting to extortion over data theft instead of encrypted data. Secure remote access : Enables encrypted connections between internal network resources and remote users using a variety of methods.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Ransomware attacks: Ransomware is malware extortion attack that encrypts a victim’s files, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key. This often causes significant disruptions and data loss to the company.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed? And that's probably a security design of what they're, what they might put out there and encryption keys and things like that.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

And, there’s thirty more villages including Girls Hack Village, the Voting Machine Hacking village, the IoT Village, and the Bio Hacking village. Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEFCON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption, if you want to learn you name it.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? In 2018, the last review year, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it was deemed to be legal as well, however, this activity is restricted to restoring the device in question to its original specifications.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” So should analyzing a device’s firmware for security flaws be considered illegal? In 2018, the last review year, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it was deemed to be legal as well, however, this activity is restricted to restoring the device in question to its original specifications.

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