The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Related: How decentralized IoT boosts decarbonization Yet, more so than ever, infusing trustworthiness into modern-day digital services has become mission critical for most businesses. If you factor in where we are in the world today with things like IoT, quantum computing and generative AI, we could be heading for a huge trust crisis.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Although one presentation was on IoT and the other was on quantum computing, they both had the same undertone and messaging. The Continued Impact of IoT. With IoT, this increases the attack vector exponentially. My other presentation was a roundtable with our partner ISARA on quantum computing and security.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

Attackers are not only encrypting data but also engaging in "double extortion," stealing sensitive patient information to demand higher ransoms. Digital transformation - cloud and IoT exposure: The healthcare industry's rapid digitization is expanding the attack surface. Every connected device or cloud app is a potential entry point.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In the process, however, they embraced a large number of connected devices and IoT platforms, which means that additional data and processes are now moving outside of the firewall and into the cloud. This presents a security risk to businesses. What Should You Do with Your Encryption Keys? The post RSAC 2020: Trust in the Cloud.

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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?

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From its early days, where security was an afterthought to business operations, to the present, where it has become a board-level discussion, governance has had to adapt to an ever-evolving digital landscape. Once quantum systems reach practical maturity, current encryption standards such as RSA and ECC will become obsolete.

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Mobile statistics The statistics presented here are based on detection verdicts by Kaspersky products and services received from users who consented to providing statistical data. This type of cyberextortion predated Trojans, which encrypt the victim’s files. IT threat evolution in Q3 2024 IT threat evolution in Q3 2024.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. Markey was against forcing encrypted phone providers to implement the NSA's Clipper Chip in their devices, but wanted us to reach a compromise with the FBI regardless.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

Use cases of secure IoT deployment. In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55. Use case 1: Fortune 500 Healthcare Company.

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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

MARCH 18, 2019

PaloAlto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting IoT devices belonging to businesses. Researchers at PaloAlto Networks spotted a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting IoT devices belonging to businesses. SecurityAffairs – Mirai, IoT). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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). Sahai recently gave this presentation outlining the technical aspects.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware targeting enterprises. “These developments suggest these IOT botnets are increasingly targeting enterprise devices with outdated versions.” and older) that is not present in currently supported versions.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Criminal hackers recognized the golden opportunity presented by hundreds of millions employees suddenly using a company VPN to work from home and remotely connect to an array of business apps. VPNs then open an encrypted tunnel from the user’s device directly into the company network. RPD presents a similar exposure.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2025

Currently in orbit around Earth are more than 12,000 active satellites, forming a vast web of data pipelines, IoT devices, and AI-driven ground stations that rivals any terrestrial datacenter in complexity and density. Each presents unique vulnerabilities ripe for exploitation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 13, 2023

Additionally, anything relying on this same cryptographic integrity (such as IoT devices, code signing, or other applications) will also become exposed. Encryption Data Security Melody Wood | Partner Marketing Manager, Thales More About This Author > Schema Please join us at “ PQC Palooza ” and in the Thales booth to learn more!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 14, 2019

Digital transformation is driving IT modernization, IoT, and cloud migrations at a record pace in the federal government. Under the rules of the roundtable, the content of the discussion was not for individual attribution, except for two formal presentations that set the stage. IoT is forever changing the boundaries of the perimeter.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

If you’re talking about tens of thousands of potential vendors that could present a risk to you.” IOT ignorance. Yet, subcontractors, moving forward, will engage from smart buildings and infrastructure increasingly reliant on IoT systems. Those can be hacked and present ways to come into a system,” Allen told me. •

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This choice could allow an attacker to present a valid SSL certificate and carry out man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks on employees’ connections. The researchers set up a compromised IoT device that initiates MITM attack using ARP Poisoning, then Forticlient initiates VPN connection. “Surprisingly (or not?),

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

com is no longer responding, but a cached copy of it from Archive.org shows that for about four years it included in its HTML source a Google Analytics code of US-2665744 , which was also present on more than a dozen other websites. That same Google Analytics code is also now present on the homepages of wiremo[.]co com , bestiptest[.]com

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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. And what then are the tools and knowledge that you need to get started hacking IoT devices. 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. And what then are the tools and knowledge that you need to get started hacking IoT devices. Funny thing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

During the past few weeks, I had the pleasure of running a presentation on how to deal with the risk of ransomware cyberattacks on corporations for the benefit of members of the “ In the Boardroom ” training course dedicated to professionals who are or aspire to become board members of publicly traded companies.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” Networks : Encrypt and authenticate all network traffic within a business environment, while segmenting networks to limit the impact of successful breaches. Consumer devices, like smartphones and IoT gadgets.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The increasing use of cloud networks, IoT devices, and remote work policies make network environments more complex than ever, turning them into a high-risk asset for every organization. Cybercriminals are always looking for the easy way in, and the sheer complexity of modern infrastructures gives them exactly that.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Rising Internet of Things (IoT) and remote health care adoption mean there’s a higher risk attackers could use one seemingly insignificant entry point to gain critical information. Encrypt Data at All Points. Another crucial step in securing health care data is encrypting it. Implement Strict Access Controls.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2022

To mitigate against this, ensure that the backend daemon that presents the login form strips any special characters from the username field. In particular, it must remove the opening and closing parenthesis characters ( ) and the equal sign = , which all have special meaning for LDAP servers. And we have rounded up some additional advice.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2024

Chalubo (ChaCha-Lua-bot) is a Linux malware that was first spotted in late August 2018 by Sophos Labs while targeting IoT devices. “We compared the banner hashes that were present on this ASN on October 27, to the banner hashes present on October 28th and observed a drop of ~179k IP addresses that had an ActionTec banner.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are risks associated with a remote workforce and the at-home use of business devices and IoT devices, but the right tools are available now to continuously manage these risks. These devices are not only connecting to the VPN and the corporate network, they are also connecting to the devices which are present in the home environment.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

The nvd.nist.gov website presents different figures, but they too show a significant increase in the number of router vulnerabilities found in 2020 and 2021. To find out why cybercriminals attack routers, it is first worth looking at the Top 10 malware detected by our IoT traps in 2021. Use proper encryption. Verdict. %*.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

An incensed population began to demand companies secure their personal information, because the consumerization of the threat was a clear and present danger. Today, with the advent of the IoT, literally everything we do is measured, calibrated, recorded and loaded to a physical or virtual server. Is Ignorance Bliss?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The presentation by Andreas Baumhof suggests that we are no more than 10 years away from breaking RSA keys in use today using this technique based on the historical doubling of qubits every two years. Times have changed because anti-virus was not focused on at all and there was little on encryption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2021

To mitigate this threat, strong encryption of data – and accurate authentication of those given access to it, must be guaranteed by telecom operators, even in the most demanding, performance intensive environments. Securing millions of new IoT connections.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

For modern networks, the introduction of new endpoints – be it remote laptops for personnel or client IoT devices – is a roadblock being actively addressed. If a blockchain user completes a transaction via a web browser, they could unknowingly be presenting sensitive details to a browser hijacker or keylogger. Block Armour.

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