Four Cyber Security Risks and How to Address Them
Security should be at the top of the mind for any organization. It has been estimated that damages from cyber crime would cost around $6 trillion annually by 2021. With growing threats to information systems and data, it is extremely important for organizations to remain…
Default Passwords Aid Satori IoT Botnet Attacks
Researchers at Netlab 360 detected a surge in malicious activity scanning and infecting several IoT devices, attempting to make them part of Satori, a variant of the Mirai IoT botnet that is used to take down websites and mine digital coins. Experts point to lack of oversight…
Google Home’s data leak proves the IoT is still deeply flawed
Google / WIRED / Artizarus The Internet of Things (IoT) security problem isn’t going away. The connected network of billions of devices – from smart doorbells to office printers – is regularly found to have privacy problems and be open to attack by potential hackers….
Magento Hackers Using Simple Evasion Trick to Reinfect Sites With Malware
Security researchers have been warning of a new trick that cybercriminals are leveraging to hide their malicious code designed to re-introduce the infection to steal confidential information from Magento based online e-commerce websites. So, if you have already cleaned up your hacked Magento website, there…
GDPR – PyRoMineIoT spreads via EternalRomance exploit and targets targets IoT devices in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Fortinet discovered PyRoMineIoT, a new strain of crypto-currency miner that exploits the NSA-linked EternalRomance exploit to spread. PyRoMineIoT is a new strain of crypto-currency miner that exploits the NSA-linked EternalRomance remote code execution exploit to spread, the malware also abuses infected machines to scan for vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices….
Microsoft Calls On Linux for Its New IoT Security Platform
Microsoft has opted to use its own version of a Linux operating system instead of Windows 10 to drive its new Azure Sphere solution for securely connecting Internet of Things devices. Microsoft introduced Azure Sphere last week at the RSA security conference in San Francisco….
Hackers Stole Over $20 Million in Ethereum from Insecurely Configured Clients
Researchers have been warning about cyber attacks wherein attackers made over 20 million dollars by hijacking insecurely configured Ethereum nodes exposed on the Internet. Qihoo 360 Netlab in March tweeted about a group of cybercriminals who were scanning the Internet for port 8545 to find insecure geth…
Predictive Analytics in Industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a segment of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often less visible than our common household objects such as cars, appliances, and central climate control that can be monitored and controlled by computers or smartphones. Dubbed the “fourth…
NanoLock’s lightweight, unbreakable security and management platform sets new standard for IoT security solutions
NanoLock Security unveiled the lightweight security and management platform purpose-built for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Connected Devices ecosystem. NanoLock’s technology addresses the market’s most pressing need to provision, protect, manage and securely update connected and IoT devices from the production line until its end-of-life and from…
Device Authority announces KeyScaler as a Service – IoT security in the cloud
Device Authority, a global provider of Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) announced its new Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model for its IoT security platform KeyScaler. KeyScaler as a Service (KSaaS) delivers unrivalled robust security and access management…
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