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IoT Secure Development Guide

Pen Test Partners

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. Table of contents 1. Threat Modelling 1.1. Why threat modelling is important 1.2. Ten-Step Design Cycle 2. Signing 3.4.

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MY TAKE: Here’s how ‘bulletproof proxies’ help criminals put compromised IoT devices to work

The Last Watchdog

namely smart refrigerators, garage doors, home routers and the like – nearly quadrupled for the retail and financial services sectors. Just the other day, Krebs broke another story about what he’s calling “bulletproof residential VPN services.” In the same time frame, US-based retail companies experienced roughly an 800% spike.

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GUEST ESSAY: Lessons learned in 2021 as cloud services, mobility and cybersecurity collided

The Last Watchdog

Securing Iot, MEC. However, these advancements open the door to new potential threats and vulnerabilities such as kernel bypass, DDOS attacks on 5G service interfaces, cyberattacks on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem, leading to Zero-day exploits, software tampering and API exploits. Work from anywhere, forever .

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What Is Edge Security? Overcoming Edge Computing Risks

eSecurity Planet

The fastest growing need stems from edge computing for the Internet of Things (IoT) such as fitness bands, self-driving cars, and retail point-of-sale (POS) registers. Instead, data now processes within branch offices, retail locations, factories, and a host of IoT devices.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Malware-based anonymity networks are a major source of unwanted and malicious web traffic directed at online retailers, Internet service providers (ISPs), social networks, email providers and financial institutions. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com, sscompany[.]net,

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices.

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Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager NAC Solution Review

eSecurity Planet

Aruba , a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company, provides mobility and IoT solutions for organizations of all sizes. A pioneer in wireless networking, Aruba now offers infrastructure services as software from the public or private cloud to enable secure connectivity for a wide range of devices including mobile and IoT.

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