CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

His friend wanted to see how fast Mirai , a novel internet of things (IoT) botnet installer, would take over a Linux-based DVR camera recorder that was popular with medium-size businesses. It was late fall in 2016 when a fellow researcher joined him at the InGuardians lab, where he is director of research.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2023

Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike has announced the release of new extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities within its Falcon platform to secure extended internet of things (XIoT) assets including IoT, Industrial IoT, OT, and medical devices. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2022

IoT devices pose significant threats to enterprises because of lack of visibility into what devices are on enterprise networks and inadequate use of monitoring tools to watch for malicious behaviors.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]. This is highlighted by the findings over the past year of researchers from Forescout Research Labs and JFrog Security Research, who have investigated the TCP/IP stacks used in a variety of IoT and other embedded systems. Patching is not always an option.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Edge computing is a model where organizations, instead of relying solely on centralized datacenters, distribute processing and storage capacities closer to where the data is generated—IoT devices for instance—and to the users and applications consuming the data. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A new variant of Mirai — the botnet malware used to launch massive DDoS attacks —has been targeting 13 vulnerabilities in IoT devices connected to Linux servers, according to researchers at Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 cybersecurity team.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2022

More than half (53%) of the IoT (internet of things) and internet of medical things (IoMT) devices used in healthcare contain critical cybersecurity risks, according to The State of IoMT Device Security report by Cynerio, which analyzed devices from more than 300 hospitals in the US.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

The growth of the internet of things (IoT) and connected devices are the biggest contributing factors to organizations’ expanding attack surfaces.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Security researcher Andrei Costin started to work from home many years ago, and when it comes to security internet of things (IoT) devices, he had his fair share of eyebrow-raising moments.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

Security researchers have found several serious vulnerabilities in dnsmasq, a utility used in many Linux-based systems, especially routers and other IoT devices, to provide DNS services. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 3, 2023

The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) has approved a set of security specifications for internet of things (IoT) systems. The oneM2M specifications define a common set of IoT service functions to enable secure data exchange and information interoperability across different vertical sectors, service providers, and use cases.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

Developers of ThingsBoard, an open-source platform for managing IoT devices that's used in various industry sectors, have fixed a vulnerability that could allow attackers to escalate their privileges on a server and send requests with administrative privileges.

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Threatpost

APRIL 20, 2018

Andy Ellis, CSO Akamai, discusses how the company works with others within the cybersecurity landscape to help keep the internet safe.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A secure by design approach is vital to protecting the internet of things (IoT) and smart cities, according to Lindy Cameron, CEO of the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Growth of IoT giving rise to increased security threats.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

Cybersecurity vendor Palo Alto has announced new software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) features in its Prisma SASE solution for IoT device security and to help customers meet industry-specific security compliance requirements.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The US Government Accounting Office (GAO) continues to highlight shortcomings in the cybersecurity posture of government entities responsible for the protection of United States infrastructure when it comes to internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) devices and systems.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These connectivity solutions, also referred to as industrial wireless IoT devices, increase the attack surface of OT networks and can provide remote attackers with a shortcut into previously segmented network segments that contain critical controllers.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Security researchers have found and reported 14 vulnerabilities in the BusyBox userspace tool that's used in millions of embedded devices running Linux-based firmware. While the flaws don't have high criticality, some of them do have the potential to result in remote code execution (RCE).

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

The data highlights that long-known vulnerabilities frequently cause more destruction than the shiny new ones,” Bob Huber, CSO and head of research, Tenable, said in a release detailing the findings in. The post Known Vulnerabilities Drove Most Cyberattacks in 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

To fully digitize the last mile of business, you need to distribute compute power where it's needed most -- right next to IoT devices that collect data from the real world.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Without a doubt, one of the most game-changing innovations is the Internet of Things (IoT). Industry analyst firm IDC expects there will be over 41 billion connected IoT devices by 2025. The exponential growth of IoT devices in the energy and utilities industry has greatly increased the need to focus on cybersecurity.

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The Security Ledger

JUNE 29, 2023

The post Episode 251: Kry10 CEO Boyd Multerer on building a secure OS for the IoT appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Related Stories Episode 250: Window Snyder of Thistle on Making IoT Security Easy Forget the IoT. billion active IoT endpoints. Click the icon below to listen.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Machine identities now outnumber humans in enterprises, according to Nathanael Coffing, co-founder and CSO of Cloudentity. Coffing notes that the recently discovered ThroughTek Kalay vulnerability compromised 83 million IoT devices , which better machine identity management could have prevented. This should come as no surprise.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

It is the host operating system for numerous application backends and servers and powers a wide variety of internet of things (IoT) devices. Linux is a coveted target. Still, not enough is done to protect the machines running it.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Today there are systems on-premises, IoT devices, public and private clouds, and substantially more custom applications. Not only has vulnerability management changed considerably over the years, but so have the systems on which enterprise security teams must identify and patch.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

The combination of IoT, 5G, cloud, data analytics, quantum computing, and AI paves the way for new and improved products and services in the energy, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare and logistics industries, to name a few.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

Internet of Things (IoT), industrial control systems, operational technology has made securing connected devices more challenging as the entry points on networks have increased tremendously and introduced more opportunities for vulnerabilities with insecure communication protocols and configurations. James Carder, LogRhythm CSO.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

A report commissioned by cloud security company Barracuda found that 94% of respondents have experienced some form of attack on their industrial IoT (IIoT) or operational technology (OT) systems during the last 12 months.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Magnet Forensics has a track record for developing investigation software for the processing of evidence from computers, mobile devices, IoT devices and cloud services, and has had a strong user base among law enforcement and government agencies.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Many organizations today possess a growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that aren’t all known or managed by IT. Why Machine Learning Has Become Vital for Cybersecurity The need for machine learning has to do with complexity. All data and applications aren’t running on-premises, as hybrid and multicloud are the new normal.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Read the whole entry. » » Click the icon below to listen. Video Podcast ] | [ MP3 ] | [ Transcript ] Editor’s note: since recording this conversation with Tanya, We Hack Purple was acquired by Semgrep , where Tanya Janca in now the Head of Community and Education.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 11, 2022

Volodymyr Shymanskyy, co-founder of Blynk IoT Platform, made the claims on Twitter. Chinese drone producer DJI Global has been accused of limiting the capabilities of its AeroScope technology for the Ukrainian army, giving a significant air reconnaissance edge to Russian invaders amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Organizations are adopting threat exposure management techniques to manage business risks stemming from developing and applying technology such as Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, quantum computing, and augmented reality.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In fact, the IoT market was due to reach 31 billion connected devices in 2020 and is estimated to reach 75 billion IoT devices by 2025. Typically, corporate networks are equipped with firewalls, a Chief Security Officer (CSO), and a whole cybersecurity department to keep them safe.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between the ongoing influence of remote work and IoT, the number and diversity of devices that have to be managed by endpoint security tools is on the rise. As a consequence, the number of available tools to manage them has also risen.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

It is likely that the [role-based access control] frameworks is easier to design and implement for software systems, but when it comes to OT/IoT devices, wrong assumptions are made around how the devices will be accessed and how limited the access to these devices is. “This is a design failure,” agreed Kulkarni. “It

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Some metrics rate the broader IoT ecosystem to be over 12 billion devices. We’re living in a time of unprecedented connectivity. Nearly everything you can think of is already or will soon be connected to networks and the internet. At the same time, we are living in a digitally driven economy.

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