Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As expected, IoT devices are filled with vulnerabilities : As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineered one of the older coffee makers to see what kinds of hacks he could do with it. After just a week of effort, the unqualified answer was: quite a lot.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Sundaresan Bindu Sundaresan , Cybersecurity Director, LevelBlue In 2025, cybercriminals will exploit supply chain vulnerabilities, ransomware, IoT botnets, and AI-driven phishing. Rising IoT use demands standards to prevent device weaponization, while AI-enabled phishing challenges defenses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2025

The experts warn that a hidden feature poses a security risk for millions of IoT devices. “Tarlogic Securityhas detected a hidden functionality that can be used as a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present inmillions of mass-market IoT devices.”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Related: IoT growing at a 24% clip To get there to fully tap the potential of a hyper-interconnected ecosystem where devices, data, AI and humans converge to benefit humankind cybersecurity must first catch up. The expansion of IoT into IoE has vastly expanded the range of potential targets for cyberattacks.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

You can start threat modeling IoT with the four question framework: What are you building? But there are specifics to IoT, and those specifics influence how you think about each of those questions. In the IoT world, the question of did we do a good job becomes have we done a good enough job? What can go wrong? Don Bailey)

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The use of unmanaged and IoT devices in enterprises is growing exponentially, and will account for 55.7 A critical concern is deploying IoT devices without requisite security controls. Furthermore, 83% of IoT-based transactions happen over plaintext channels and not SSL, making them especially risky.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 9, 2020

Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology). Digital transformation is leading to more intensive use of the cloud, faster development of software to support it, and the growth of the IoT.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

IoT security is where endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) and enterprise mobility management ( EMM ) meet the challenges of a rapidly expanding edge computing infrastructure. As the enterprise attack surface grows, IoT is yet another attack vector organizations aren’t fully prepared to defend.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 18, 2021

Cybersecurity Researchers from Mandiant have disclosed that millions of IoT devices operating across the globe were vulnerable to cyber attacks because of a flaw in Kalay Cloud platform software supplied by ThroughTek. ThroughTek has issued a fix of 3.1.10

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 30, 2024

The post Brits Ban Default Passwords — and More IoT Stupidity appeared first on Security Boulevard. The UK’s Product Security and Tele­comm­uni­cations Infra­struc­ture Act aims to improve the security of net-connected consumer gear.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Manufacturing systems, especially the ones that work with SCADA technology (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), IoT devices, and other critical technologies, depend heavily on efficient IT support to ensure that the downtime is minimal, and the performance is optimal.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

million edge and IoT devices from around the world in a massive brute force attack that is targeting edge security systems from Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, SonicWall, and other vendors, according to the Shadowserver Foundation. Threat actors are using as many as 2.8 The post Attackers Use 2.8

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Persistent exploitation of legacy systems One of the most alarming aspects of Ghost ransomware is its focus on legacy IoT and OT environments. Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering. Enforce DMARC, DKIM, and SPF to prevent spoofing.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Phones, tablets and workstations with unpatched CVEs are a clear and present danger. New Armis study lists the most vulnerable.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The discovery of the flaws is the result of reverse-engineering the Taiwanese

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Adam Shostack

MARCH 5, 2020

.” I want to look at these as a specific way to express a threat model, which is threat modeling along the supply chain, talk about the proliferation of this different kind of model, and what it means for engineering. There’s a tremendous amount of guidance for IoT makers, and the lists are not well aligned.

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SecureList

JULY 6, 2022

Among the various offensive security techniques, vulnerability assessment takes priority when it comes to analyzing the security of IoT/IIoT devices. The vulnerability assessment of IoT/IIoT devices is based on analyzing their firmware.

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Trend Micro

JUNE 14, 2023

We looked into the documented behavior of SeroXen malware and noted the inclusion of the latest iteration of the batch obfuscation engine BatCloak to generate a fully undetectable (FUD).bat bat loader.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) devices in general have earned a reputation for poor cybersecurity, and internet-connected cameras are no exception. Case in point: unsecured webcams make up the top three out of the five most popular searches on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that specializes in identifying unsecure devices online.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

And get the latest on open source software security; cyber scams; and IoT security. 77% of organizations have the overprivileged default Compute Engine service account configured in Google Vertex AI Notebooks which puts all services built on this default Compute Engine at risk.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The data was found on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that allows users to look up and access “power plants, Smart TVs, [and] refrigerators.” The data was exposed due to a misconfiguration of Elasticsearch , an open-source search engine technology. 32 million SkyBrasil customers. 1133 NFL players.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a feat of engineering, the bomb component was so carefully hidden as to be virtually undetectable, even if the device was taken apart, the officials said. Also read Bunnie Huang’s essay on what it means to live in a world where people can turn IoT devices into bombs. In practice, that meant using both hands.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

OT bias: “Cybersecurity is just another engineering task”. Industrial control systems (ICS) engineers have dealt with complex process controls for years. As for safety and reliability engineering, invest in skills, people, and processes. Make it a priority to train every ICS engineer. Regularly assess and remediate risks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) expands upon a basic Network Access Control (NAC) concept to include modules for network device control and integrated security options. The post Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE): NAC Product Review appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. It trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol CSCO.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2021

NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. 11 this year, now would be a good time to care of that.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said when Spur first started looking into Faceless, they noticed almost every Internet address that Faceless advertised for rent also showed up in the IoT search engine Shodan.io Those with IoT zero-days could expect payment if their exploit involved at least 5,000 systems that could be identified through Shodan.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The Stratosphere use case where the DNN performed least well is a very specific IoT dataset. Manual feature engineering. Worse, theyre resource hogs, demanding constant attention from detection engineers. It appears that the DNN had not been exposed to this sort of data in its training.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 20, 2020

Sure, defenders can use the same systems, but many of today's Internet of Things (IoT) systems have no engineering teams to write patches and no ability to download and install patches. The result will be hundreds of vulnerabilities that attackers can find and use.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

I want to look at these as a specific way to express a threat model, which is threat modeling along the supply chain, talk about the proliferation of this different kind of model, and what it means for engineering. There's a tremendous amount of guidance for IoT makers, and the lists are not well aligned. That has 13 guidelines.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security. The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere. Smart devices and IoT systems are beginning to interconnect with each other and this is only going to continue.”. Energy at the edges. How microcontrollers distribute energy is a very big deal.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

” Those third-party reports came in late June 2024 from Michael Horka , senior lead information security engineer at Black Lotus Labs , the security research arm of Lumen Technologies , which operates one of the global Internet’s largest backbones. victims and one non-U.S. ”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In late 2016, the world witnessed the sheer disruptive power of Mirai , a powerful botnet strain fueled by Internet of Things (IoT) devices like DVRs and IP cameras that were put online with factory-default passwords and other poor security settings. A rendering of Xiongmai’s center in Hangzhou, China. Source: xiongmaitech.com.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

Last year, security experts from IBM X-Force said that the Mozi botnet accounted for 90 percent of traffic from IoT devices at that time. Mirai works by harnessing tens of thousands of small, low-powered Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as Internet-connected cameras and home routers. Vulnerabilities.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2024

EKEN IoT FAIL: Amazon, Sears and Shein still sell security swerving stuff. The post Cheap Video Doorbell Cams: Tools of Stalkers and Thieves appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

How the Necro Trojan infiltrated Google Play, again Kryptina RaaS | From Unsellable Cast-Off to Enterprise Ransomware “Marko Polo” Navigates Uncharted Waters With Infostealer Empire Octo2: European Banks Already Under Attack by New Malware Variant Infostealer malware bypasses Chrome’s new cookie-theft defenses AI-Generated Malware Found in the Wild (..)

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Supply chain and cloud misconfigurations are weak links 82% of breaches stem from IoT and cloud misconfigurations, exposing businesses to cascading failures. Nation-state actors from China, Russia, and Iran are leveraging Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) for espionage and infrastructure sabotage.

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