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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

I also looked at custom firmware and soldering and why, to my mind, that was a path I didn't need to go down at this time. Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet.

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Building a foundation of trust for the Internet of Things

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Invariably, Internet of Things (IoT) strategies form the backbone of those efforts. Enormous quantities of data can be generated by and collected from a wide variety of IoT devices. Finally, it is difficult to underemphasise the importance of encryption to protect sensitive data collected by IoT devices.

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Hacking Wi-Fi networks by exploiting a flaw in Philips Smart Light Bulbs

Security Affairs

based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and other low-power low-bandwidth needs, designed for small scale projects which need wireless connection.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 11 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users Gizmodo An owner of a data broker business brags and showcases his company's ability to deliver "personalized messaging at scale." Malware campaigns covered generally target/affect the end user.

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NEW TECH: Trend Micro inserts ‘X’ factor into ‘EDR’ – endpoint detection and response

The Last Watchdog

Once inside, attacks increasingly deploy so-called ‘fileless” attacks , that come and go only when a certain compromised piece of software – or firmware — is opened in memory. More data had to be collected, stored and analyzed, ideally by experienced analysts. But, of course, EDR also raised fresh challenges.

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Too much UPnP-enabled connected devices still vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security Affairs

. “The hackers behind it reportedly took advantage of poorly configured routers that had the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service enabled, which caused the routers to forward public ports to the private devices and be open to the public internet,” reads the analysis published by Yang. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There are three major threat vectors that harm IoT deployments: Devices are hijacked by malicious software; Data collected and processed in IoT ecosystems is tampered with and impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information; and, Weak user and device authentication. Internet Of Things. Data security.

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