Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2021

FireEye Mandiant researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Kalay cloud platform that exposes millions of IoT devices to attacks. The flaw could be easily exploited by a remote attacker to take over an IoT device, the only info needed for the attack is the Kalay unique identifier (UID) of the targeted user.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As most of us know, IoT devices are on the rise in enterprise networks. According to McKinsey & Company , the proportion of organizations that use IoT products has grown from 13 percent in 2014 to 25 percent today. The issue is that these tens of billions of new devices will likely amplify the inherent security risks of IoT.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Security researcher and IoT hacker Dennis Giese talks about his mission to liberate robot vacuums from the control of their manufacturers, letting owners tinker with their own devices and - importantly - control the data they collect about our most intimate surroundings. Forget the IoT. Read the whole entry. »

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Naked Security

AUGUST 17, 2021

Internet of Things. Home automation. Cloud management. And a security bug that could let other people watch you online.

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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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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2024

EKEN IoT FAIL: Amazon, Sears and Shein still sell security swerving stuff. The post Cheap Video Doorbell Cams: Tools of Stalkers and Thieves appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2022

If all goes smoothly, surveillance cams, smart doorbells and robot vacuums would soon follow. I had the chance to discuss the wider significance of Matter with Mike Nelson, DigiCert’s vice president of IoT security. Here’s what we discussed, edited for clarity and length. Secured, standard software updates to ensure integrity.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. The flaws reside in a feature named the “XMEye P2P Cloud” that is enabled by default which is used to connect surveillance devices to the cloud infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security. The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

But what new kinds of Internet of Things use cases may become possible? And, just as important, what are the security implications of massively distributed IoT endpoints connected to capacious 5G cellular infrastructure? But what new kinds of Internet of Things use cases may become possible? Read the whole entry. »

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. Connected things are what make the IoT – sensors, cameras, wearable electronics, medical devices, automatic controls. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 8, 2019

The Internet of Things ( IoT ) found a still better foothold in consumer households with Amazon’s recent acquisition of eero, a wifi mesh router company. While Internet-enabled devices have become smaller, more powerful and affordable, routers haven’t kept pace. But the background here matters. In the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A vulnerability in the Guardzilla home video surveillance system could be exploited by users to watch Guardzilla footage of other users. The Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System is an indoor video surveillance solution. SecurityAffairs – Guardzilla, IoT). ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this. Advanced use cases.

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The Security Ledger

JUNE 29, 2020

In this episode of the podcast (#186) we do a deep dive on the new IoT cyber security rating system from Underwriters' Lab. » Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Two Decades On TCG Tackles Trustworthiness For The Internet of Things How NIST Is Securing The Quantum Era Book argues for New Laws to break Social Media Monopolies. . »

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2022

The latest Sysrv variant scans the Internet for web servers that have security holes offering opportunities such as path traversal, remote file disclosure, and arbitrary file download bugs. Another is the usage of Linux as the go-to operating system for many IoT devices. And around 95% of web servers run on Linux. Vulnerabilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with., 5G tech will make the IoT a greater part of our everyday lives. Conclusion.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 8, 2019

We sit down with IoT luminary and. » Related Stories Spotlight: as Attacks Mount, how to secure the Industrial Internet Die Hard is a Movie About Building Automation Insecurity. We sit down with IoT luminary and influencer Stacey Higginbotham of the Internet of Things podcast and the StaceyonIoT blog to find out.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Hackers were able to gain access to camera feeds from Verkada, a tech company that specializes in video security and physical access control, to demonstrate how prevalent surveillance is, reports say. It is also a metaphor used to illustrate surveillance technology. If you are a Verkada customer, no action is required on your part.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Users of Wyze’s home security cameras over the past several days have reported glitches with the internet-connected devices, from losing camera coverage for hours to being able to see images and video from other people’s cameras. It turns out the problem originated from cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), a Wyze partner, which took down.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

According to the alert issued by the FBI, the swatters have been hijacking smart devices such as video and audio capable home surveillance devices. “Recently, offenders have been using victims’ smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices, to carry out swatting attacks.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Internet-connected smart devices, like surveillance cams, smart light bulbs, smart locks and doorbells and baby monitors, are notoriously fraught with vulnerabilities, posing grave security risks. While interesting, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. These new changes and trends in the threat landscape will likely spill over into 2021.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. But it's just one of dozens of awful "security" measures commonly found in IoT devices.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. No, these cameras are an extremely powerful part of the Internet of Things (IOT). According to Vice, this includes more than 24,000 unique organizations.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

Machine identities are what make hybrid business networks possible; they are nothing less than the key to stitching together emerging IoT- and 5G-centric systems. Machine identities are foundational in our digital transformation, because everything that’s going onto the Internet is all built on machines.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

The internet has been a blessing since its inception. The very concept of globalization has come into existence just because of the internet. The internet brought with it plenty of benefits, but accompanying these benefits came some evils that were previously not known of. They do this by following you on the internet.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Experts observed multiple botnets exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in DVRs for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN. Botnet operators are exploiting several zero-day vulnerabilities in digital video recorders (DVRs) for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN-.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2022

“These vulnerabilities could impact access to a vehicle fuel supply, vehicle control, or allow locational surveillance of vehicles in which the device is installed.” Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote actor to exploit access and gain control the global positioning system tracker.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

TBK Vision is a video surveillance company that provides network CCTV devices and other related equipment, including DVRs for the protection of critical infrastructure facilities. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

IoT gizmos make our lives easier, but we forget that these doohickeys are IP endpoints that act as mini-radios. They continuously send and receive data via the internet and can be the easiest way for a hacker to access your home network. Department of Homeland Security described IoT security as a matter of homeland security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

IoT vendor Wyze announced that one of its servers exposed the details of roughly 2.4 IoT vendor Wyze announced that details of roughly 2.4 The incident was independently verified by the authors of the blog IPVM that focuses on video surveillance products. million customers. million customers were accidentally exposed online.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Most of the exploits allow the botnet to compromise unpatched IoT devices, but experts warn that enterprise apps Oracle WebLogic and VMware SD-Wan are also potential targets. Authentication Bypass / Remote Command Execution EnGenius EnShare IoT Gigabit Cloud Service 1.4.11 Cashdollar will be at Defcon (@_larry0) August 6, 2019.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2019

The US Gov is testing high-altitude balloons for surveillance. Russia-linked STRONTIUM APT targets IoT devices to hack corporate networks. CafePress Data Breach exposes technical details of 23 Million users. Crooks turn victims into money mules via confidence/romance scams. Expert publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in KDE.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. “Like any other IoT device, these robot vacuum cleaners could be marshalled into a botnet for DDoS attacks, but that’s not even the worst-case scenario, at least for owners.

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