SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Exposed enterprise IoT devices can be an indicator of security issues to come, with firms sporting exposed devices having a 62% higher density of other security problems, new research shows. Is it surprising that there’s a correlation between something like IoT exposure and other security issues? Well, a lot of things went wrong.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Related: Why IoT standards matter Digital Trust refers to the level of confidence both businesses and consumers hold in digital products and services – not just that they are suitably reliable, but also that they are as private and secure as they need to be. Notable progress was made in 2023 in the quest to elevate Digital Trust.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

Cryptography: Dive into the world of cryptography, studying symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, and cryptographic algorithms. Explore topics like key management, secure communication protocols, and encryption in different contexts.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2021

Canada-based Internet of Things (IoT) maker Sierra Wireless has been hit by ransomware attack bringing certain production operations of the company to a halt. The post IoT device maker Sierra Wireless hit by Ransomware attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

These devices exist outside of direct corporate management and provide a ransomware gang with unchecked platforms for encrypting data. How does remote encryption work? Some of this 11% includes the common and recurring problem of overlooked legacy endpoints such as laptops, desktops, and mobile devices.

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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Their trepidation is focused on the potential undermining of a core security component of classical computing systems: encryption. The monumental challenge is that replacing classical encryption with PQC will be complicated and time consuming. To its credit, the global cybersecurity community is not asleep on this.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This has resulted in astounding innovations in cloud services, mobile computing, IoT systems and agile software development. Whether it’s IoT (Internet of Things) devices, desktop applications, web applications native to the web browsers, or mobile applications – all these types of software rely on APIs in one way or another.

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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. Twinkly smart decoration could be controlled via a mobile app, the experts focused their tests on the communication. ” reads the analysis published by MWR InfoSecurity.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

5G is already transforming and enhancing mobile connectivity. With 5G networks, billions of devices and IoT (the internet of things) are interconnectible — leading to use cases like smart cities, AR/VR on mobile networks, remote medicine and much more. This article was written by an independent guest author.

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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 Security Ledger

JULY 4, 2018

Quantum principles are set to transform the next generation of Internet security, with new quantum-based technologies on tap to improve encryption and data communication which researchers believe could solve some of the limitations with current technology. Read the whole entry. » Read the whole entry. »

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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. This will depend on your devices’ and network’s compatibility.

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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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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. com, sscompany[.]net, net, and hideipvpn[.]com.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

PKI and digital certificates were pivotal in the formation of the commercial Internet, maturing in parallel with ecommerce. This is how we authenticate human and machine identities and move encrypted data between endpoints. Related: A primer on advanced digital signatures. The legacy way to manage PKI is to do it manually.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Eufy home security cameras and doorbells are insecure: They send your photos to the cloud without permission and serve up video across the internet without encryption. The post More Lies: Anker’s Eufy Pants on Fire — ‘No Cloud’ Cams Send to Cloud appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2021

With the introduction of lockdowns across the globe, our reliance on internet networks to work remotely, call relatives across seas, or even to take part in leisure activities via a screen has soared. However, many mobile operators have not seemingly jumped upon this trend, continuing to onboard customers at brick-and-mortar stores.

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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

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. New additions to the ransomware arsenal. Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.p. Local threats.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. In the classic case of a human user clicking to a website, CAs, like DigiCert, verify the authenticity of the website and encrypt the data at both ends.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 1, 2018

In this Spotlight Edition of the Security Ledger Podcast: identity is at the root of many of the security problems facing the Internet of Things, from vulnerable and “chatty” endpoints to a lack of robust update and lifecycle management features. Read the whole entry. »

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The advent of 5G presents an opportunity for us to think the exploding number of IoT devices and how we securely connect to the digital world.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yes No EoP CVE-2021-43893 Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Important 7.5 Yes No EoP CVE-2021-43880 Windows Mobile Device Management Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Important 5.5 No No RCE CVE-2021-42310 Microsoft Defender for IoT Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Critical 8.1

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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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. In theory, such a technique could be used to avoid the cost and power-consumption of mobile Internet access.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

RADIUS and TACACS+ apply to specific types of endpoints, but the ZTNA-as-a-Service product works for all kinds of devices, including Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) endpoints, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, operations technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and industrial IoT (IIoT).

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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. According to cve.mitre.org , the number of vulnerabilities discovered in various routers, from mobile to industrial, has grown over the past decade. Keeping this gate locked so that no one can stroll right through is no easy task.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab , and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of UCLA Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CEF). This, in fact, is the core security challenge companies face defending their business networks.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Avoid charging mobile devices through a computer; instead, use separate adapters. Turn off the internet connection if you will not be using it for an extended period. Consider segmenting your Wi-Fi networks: one for main use, one for guests, and another for IoT devices. Use the 3-2-1 backup rule.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

As of January 2019, the vast majority of Internet-accessible CoAP devices were located in China and used mobile peer-to-peer networks. Later in 2019, several security researchers reported an increase in cyber actors’ use of non-standard protocols and misconfigured IoT devices to amplify DDoS attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2020

federal government aggressively implements cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Things (IoT), a leader relative to the rest of the world – even when compared to the business sector. Breach rates continue to rise and encryption is still too low. Breaches remain an issue.

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