eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Within the last couple of months, smart device vulnerabilities have been piling up, prompting businesses to protect their Internet of Things (IoT) environments. While Teslas aren’t the typical business IoT device, their connection to the internet makes them a cyber threat as much as your business’s other IoT technology.

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

According to the company, every device is both tracked in real time and users are provided information on the make, model and manufacturer, operating system, firmware, serial number and MAC address, and even outline known vulnerabilities that affect it. The post Cynerio raises $30 million to protect medical IoT appeared first on SC Media.

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SC Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Today’s columnist, Matt Wyckhouse of Finite State, says to lock down IoT devices, manufacturers have to build security in from the start. billion IoT devices expected to hit the market globally by 2025. A recent Microsoft Security Signals survey found that just 29% of companies have any budget allocated to protect firmware at all.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

This alone seems to go against the Secure by Design proposal , an already-drafted law that gives power to the Department of Culture, Media, and Sports (DCMS) to order tech makers (phone, tablet, IoT) to be transparent about when they’ll stop providing security updates to their new devices from launch. Router flaws found by Which?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Staying safe on social networks Prioritize safe communication habits on social media platforms. Periodically, at least once a quarter, review the security settings of your social media accounts and the apps linked to them. Use the administrator account only for maintenance, software installation, or firmware updates.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The best way to avoid getting got is to self-navigate online, avoiding links sent via any media. 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. Missing Data. You may have made a mistake. Update Everything.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

The findings of the study reveal a number of serious security issues, including the use of hard-coded credentials, and an insecure firmware update process. We later managed to extract the firmware from the EEPROM for further static reverse engineering. Further hardware analysis of the circuit board helped us identify chips.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Hacking IoT devices with Focaccia-Board: A Multipurpose Breakout Board to hack hardware in a clean and easy way! Unsigned Firmware running on peripherals could expose Windows, Linux systems to hack. Adobe released out-of-band updates for After Effects and Media Encoder apps. Uncovering New Magecart Implant Attacking eCommerce.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Patch management is a crucial aspect for IoT devices, smart objects are surrounding us and represent a privileged target for hackers. “This application handles file names incorrectly when the user uploads a media file. Click the Firmware update link for details about how to check the software version.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2021

To demonstrate their point, they released an ESP32 firmware that turns the micro-controller into an (upload only) modem. Using firmware based on the TU Darmstadt research, the device can broadcast a hardcoded default message and then listens for any new data to broadcast in a loop until a new message is received.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 23, 2021

Just like any other connected IoT device, hackers can compromise networked printers remotely. Manual configuration of devices can lead to problems with inconsistent settings and firmware levels. Automating security tasks releases IT admins from having to run firmware updates overnight to avoid interrupting business.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? They spoke at BlackHat USA 2021 where they launched a new tool to find IoT based CnC servers. Clearly, there needs to be another approach. Davanian: This is Ali.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These attacks were extremely carefully orchestrated – to conduct them, Lazarus stole the source code of a cryptocurrency-related computer game, promoted social media accounts related to that game, and obtained access to a unique chain of zero-day exploits used to infect targets visiting the game website.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2022

Combined with social media propaganda, social engineering targeting, and email phishing attacks, these threat vectors could change the course of the battle well before a single shot is fired. Many IOT/OT/ICS devices do not have enough physical device capacity to load classic IT security prevention tools. Mostly like, no.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

. “Many devices such as cameras, printers, and routers use UPnP to make it easy for them to automatically discover and vet other devices on a local network and communicate with each other for data sharing or media streaming. UPnP works with network protocols to configure communications in the network.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Industrial networks contain thousands of OT and IoT devices from a variety of vendors. The post Five takeaways from the Oldsmar water facility attack appeared first on SC Media. It’s important to have an accurate, centralized asset inventory for effective cybersecurity and operational monitoring. Identify and patch vulnerabilities.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Industrial networks contain thousands of OT and IoT devices from a variety of vendors. The post Five takeaways from the Oldsmar water facility attack appeared first on SC Media. It’s important to have an accurate, centralized asset inventory for effective cybersecurity and operational monitoring. Identify and patch vulnerabilities.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

APRIL 19, 2023

Features of LoRa include media access controls and the encryption transmissions. Lab Equipment LA66 USB LoRaWAN Adapter : Cost $20-$35 – This is a flexible serial to LoRa module that has P2P firmware supporting the open-source peer-to-peer LoRa protocol. TTN provides everything a self-funded researcher needs.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The smallest organizations can perform this through a visual inspection and a review of the media access control (MAC) addresses connected to the network. 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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Notice Bored

JANUARY 9, 2021

Flip forward 20 years and we see similar horrors unfolding today in the form of myriad IoT things and 'the cloud', so indistinct and unclear that people long since gave up trying to draw meaningful network diagrams - only now the year encoding aspect is the least of our security problems. We had all that back in 99. Oh wait, you have one?

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Data on smartphones, laptops and all those IoT things proliferating like swarms of cockroaches in a horror movie. Software, data, metadata and configuration items tucked away in RAM, in firmware, on computer chips and tapes and floppy disks and DVDs. Information in obscure formats and obsolete media.

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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. Why threat modelling is important 1.2.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While the media headlines of record breaking ransoms against fortune 500 companies will always take center stage, the small to mid market has always been the bread and butter for cybercriminals. Be Cautious with Smart Devices: Secure your IoT devices by changing default passwords and keeping firmware updated.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Richard Staynings , Chief Security Strategist for IoT security company Cylera and teaching professor for cybersecurity at the University of Denver, provides comments throughout. Here's a summary of the key provisions, initiatives, and notable omissions from the sweeping legislation included in the 100-page bill's budget.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From IoT devices to internet-based services, the security of countless devices and web-based services' are dependant upon a secure Linux account privilege model. UK media didn't report UK gym chain Total Fitness had been hit by a ransomware attack. DDoS Attacks Leverage Plex Media Server. Total Fitness Ransomware Attack.

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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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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? I'll build my own media wiki so that I'm not beholden to some other company that might go out of business. And I'm using a free service.

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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. A lot of people didn't know each other and there wasn't always trust because of some of the claims that were coming out in the way that it was being presented in the media.

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