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The Silent Breach: How E-Waste Fuels Cybercrime

SecureWorld News

These forgotten electronics pose a risk to our security. And with Americans owning an average of 24 electronic items in their homes , neglecting to dispose of these items correctly is putting individuals at significant risk of cybercrime. Cybercrime is an online criminal activity that targets computer networks and devices.

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P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices

Krebs on Security

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found.

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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

This incident demonstrates the possibility of attacks being conducted to cause physical harm, and various threat actors may be leveraging electronic or fully digital components. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? A potentially more impactful threat lies in the satellite internet access supply chain.

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What does WiFi stand for?

Malwarebytes

We use WiFi to connect to the Internet, but what is it, and what does it stand for? How does it have such a catchy name, and why do we sometimes have a weak Internet connection with a strong WiFi signal and vice versa? What is the difference between WiFi and Internet? Can you have WiFi without Internet?

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Five Tips for Ensuring Communications Security in Your Organization

CyberSecurity Insiders

As we grew older, our experience with communication security, or COMSEC, was likely much more sophisticated, such as advanced electronic mathematical algorithms created for securing satellite communications thousands of miles away in space. Firewalls should be implemented between any wireless networks and the organization’s internal network.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data. Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come.

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Letting the Internet of Things into Your Home

SiteLock

I’ve decided it might be time to consider a letting the Internet of Things (IoT) into my home. The problem with many consumer electronics is their planned obsolescence. Does it work without internet? One of my biggest peeves about IoT devices is when they aren’t able to function without internet. someone else’s computer).