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Researchers have described how a botnet powered by high-wattage IoT devices can manipulate the energy market. [Read More]
Companies affected by the BootHole vulnerability in the GRUB2 bootloader have started issuing advisories. [Read More]
Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability dubbed BootHole that can be exploited to install persistent and stealthy malware. [Read More]
The United States and the United Kingdom warned in a joint alert issued this week that a piece of malware has infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. [Read More]
Netgear has started releasing patches for ten vulnerabilities affecting nearly 80 of its products, including flaws disclosed last year at the Pwn2Own hacking contest. [Read More]
Driver vulnerabilities can facilitate attacks on ATMs, PoS systems and other devices, warns firmware security company Eclypsium. [Read More]
IBM has disclosed several vulnerabilities affecting powerline extenders from Tenda and says the vendor has ignored its emails and phone calls. [Read More]
Siemens this week announced that it is acquiring UltraSoC Technologies, a provider of analytics and monitoring solutions for SoCs. [Read More]
Microsoft has acquired industrial cybersecurity company CyberX in an effort to expand its Azure IoT security capabilities and extend them to IIoT and OT. [Read More]
Millions of IoT devices, including ones made by some of the world’s largest tech companies, are exposed to remote attacks due to vulnerabilities found in the Treck TCP/IP stack. [Read More]
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // IoT Security
Speech recognition systems make mistakes that could give cybercriminals access to a user’s home network. By activating a squatted skill, an unexpecting user could allow a malicious actor to extract information about their account, home network and even passwords before running the requested command.
The ability to aggregate, score and prioritize data and alerts within the context of your environment can allow you to take the right actions faster to mitigate IoT risk.
IoT security is a tough challenge — involving everything from hard to implement standards; hard to reach industrial components; and choices on how to integrate security around both older “brownfield” and newer IoT systems and equipment.
Organizations are now running IoT application workloads in diverse locations that create complex ecosystems for IT and security personnel to oversee.
Organizations can no longer afford to treat IoT devices as an isolated or independent component of their business, and must implement an effective IoT security strategy.
Advanced smart infrastructure, cloud networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) add more points of entry and ultimately more risk for both network operators and end users.
Since access control technologies are usually the first network element that a new device touches, they need to be able to automatically recognize IoT devices.
Whether you work with in-house security resources or outside consultants, security experts are essential to help uncover vulnerabilities and offer recommendations to prioritize and mitigate risks.
Safeguarding emerging IoT ecosystems involves embedding visibility and protection into the fabric of the IoT network.
Unfortunately, the Cyber Shield Act as it stands falls short, since it is a voluntary program that does not incentivize vendors to implement the NIST security standards.
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