Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. First off, connected vehicles and IoT devices are highly attractive targets to hackers. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT. Digital technology and connected IoT devices have proliferated across industries and into our daily lives. Finally, IoT devices are being used extensively in smart vehicles and home appliances to provide enhanced user experiences. Threat vectors on IoT.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Simply defined, the internet of things (IoT) is a network of Internet-connected objects able to collect and exchange data. In today’s digital-driven world, IoT connects almost everything including homes, offices, and vehicles, allowing users the convenience of activating and operating nearly any device remotely.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ubiquiti , a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders, security cameras and access control systems, is urging customers to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us.”

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

IoT and Machine Identity Management in Financial Services. How is IoT changing the financial sector? IoT has already positively impacted the financial sector and will only continue to in the future. The most notable and well-documented example of investment in the IoT infrastructure has been by retail banks.

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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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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started? Funny thing.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started? Funny thing.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Then the Internet took off and trusting the connection between a user’s device and a web server became of paramount importance. Modern digital systems simply could not exist without trusted operations, processes and connections. Failure is not an option.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Being constantly connected to the internet, they are either protected by basic passwords or, in some cases, have no password protection at all. Challenges in securing IoMT devices The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is essentially a subset of the wider Internet of Things (IoT) concept.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Security researchers discovered some flaws in the Twinkly IoT lights that could be exploited display custom lighting effects and to remotely turn off them. The communications are not encrypted, however the WiFi password is sent encrypted during set up (albeit trivial to decrypt).” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

Internet search engine Censys reported a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks targeting QNAP NAS devices. Internet search engine Censys reported that QNAP devices were targeted in a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. Once encrypted the content of the device, the ransomware appends. Source DarkFeed Twitter.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing and expected to affect all industry verticals as well as our private lives. In this blog, we reached out to our technology partner Nexus to better understand the challenges that the industry faces to ensure safe deployment and management of IoT technologies. Weak authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

Most of us connect our mobile devices to a Wi-Fi router for internet access, but this connection can leave our network and data vulnerable to cyber threats. To protect against those threats, a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption protocol is recommended. If this option is not available, you may need to upgrade the router firmware.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Turn off the internet connection if you will not be using it for an extended period. Use the administrator account only for maintenance, software installation, or firmware updates. Consider segmenting your Wi-Fi networks: one for main use, one for guests, and another for IoT devices. Opt for strong, hard-to-crack passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service. WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT?

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of interconnected electronic devices with “smart” technology. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015. There are several reasons why the Internet of Things is such a threat to our digital security.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. In early 2022, for instance, a security researcher effectively cut off the whole North Korea from the internet by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in critical routers and other network equipment. Router-targeting malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online. and printers (or print servers).

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Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2021

A researcher has found out that it is possible to upload arbitrary data from non-internet-connected devices by sending Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) broadcasts to nearby Apple devices that will happily upload the data for you. To demonstrate their point, they released an ESP32 firmware that turns the micro-controller into an (upload only) modem.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2022

Over half of internet-connected devices used in hospitals have a vulnerability that could put patient safety, confidential data, or the usability of a device at risk, according to a new report from the healthcare cybersecurity company Cynerio. The most common type of internet-connected device in hospitals was an infusion pump.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Below are the mitigations provided in the alert: Install updates for operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released. Turn off SSH and other network device management interfaces such as Telnet, Winbox, and HTTP for wide area networks (WANs) and secure with strong passwords and encryption when enabled.

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SecureList

JULY 6, 2022

Among the various offensive security techniques, vulnerability assessment takes priority when it comes to analyzing the security of IoT/IIoT devices. The vulnerability assessment of IoT/IIoT devices is based on analyzing their firmware. Qiling is an advanced multi-platform framework for emulating executable files.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2021

CVE-2021-42310 Microsoft Defender for IoT Remote Code Execution vulnerability. Once installed, use the Update & security section of the app to download and install the latest firmware. An attacker could send a specially crafted request to the Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) server, which could result in an RCE.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS. The experts observed that once a device has been infected, the malicious code can prevent the installation of firmware updates. If sources are in question, run a full factory reset on the device prior to completing the firmware upgrade.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

IoT Design Frameworks 2.2. Threat modeling can be applied to a wide range of things, including software, applications, systems, networks, distributed systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and business processes. Deploy malicious firmware. Table of contents 1. Threat Modelling 1.1. Ten-Step Design Cycle 2.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If the data connection is not properly encrypted ( spoiler alert: it’s not, we’ve checked! ), anyone who can intercept the connection is able to monitor all data that is exchanged. ” Experts also discovered that it is possible to execute arbitrary code on the device through a firmware update. Who controls these servers?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Even though a security fix has been available since October 25, many internet-exposed servers are still at risk, and a number of security researchers have reported ransomware attacks exploiting the vulnerability. The problem: A security problem in Apache ActiveMQ lets attackers control systems remotely, making them highly vulnerable.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most likely you didn’t pause before you clicked, and got phished or compromised in some other way–possibly by an internet of things device connected to your home network. 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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

With the advent of quantum computing, the security that protects the digital identities and internet communications (SSL/TLS) of our modern society is thus significantly weakened. A life-and-death situation could occur if some medical IoT devices have their identities compromised and allow malware to take control of devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . It’s used in different devices from different vendors, the affected devices sharing the firmware are: Netgear Stora. The company provides a firmware with a web interface that mainly uses PHP as a serverside language.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

” The experts also pointed out that the RSA encryption key would fail since it is not designed to work with an empty password. TP-Link has already addressed the flaw with the release of the following security patches for Archer C5 V4, Archer MR200v4, Archer MR6400v4, and Archer MR400v3 routers: Firmware for Archer C5 V4: [link].

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction In today’s interconnected world, more and more devices are being connected to the internet, including everyday household items like pet feeders that are becoming smart by virtue of this simple fact. We later managed to extract the firmware from the EEPROM for further static reverse engineering.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Some applications, cloud infrastructure, networking equipment, or Internet of Things (IoT) devices may require more sophisticated ITAM or additional tools to detect them.

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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 no internet. Other forms of ransomware threaten to publicize sensitive information within the encrypted data.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

firmware (hard drives, drivers, etc.), Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices (security cameras, heart monitors, etc.), However, some patches, particularly for infrastructure, firmware, or less common software may not be automatable. Kubernetes instances, websites, applications, and more.

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