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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

In part 1 of this series, I posited that the IoT landscape is an absolute mess but Home Assistant (HA) does an admirable job of tying it all together. As with the rest of the IoT landscape, there's a lot of scope for improvement here and also just like the other IoT posts, it gets very complex for normal people very quickly.

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Zscaler Report: Mobile, IoT, and OT Cyber Threats Surge in 2024

Tech Republic Security

Zscaler ThreatLabz report reveals a 2024 surge in mobile, IoT, and OT cyberattacks, highlighting key trends and the need for zero trust security.

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GreyNoise: AI’s Central Role in Detecting Security Flaws in IoT Devices

Security Boulevard

GreyNoise Intelligence researchers said proprietary internal AI-based tools allowed them to detect and identify two vulnerabilities in IoT live-stream cameras that traditional cybersecurity technologies would not have been able to discover.

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P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices

Krebs on Security

iLnkP2p is bundled with millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including security cameras and Webcams, baby monitors, smart doorbells, and digital video recorders. He found that 39 percent of the vulnerable IoT things were in China; another 19 percent are located in Europe; seven percent of them are in use in the United States.

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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. The author of Mirai used a sledgehammer to kill a fly: the DDoS bombardment was so large that it also wiped out Dyn , a UK-based internet performance vendor. It’s easy to do when there are six million open DNS resolvers on the internet using poor security practices.”.

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What Would It Look Like If We Put Warnings on IoT Devices Like We Do Cigarette Packets?

Troy Hunt

Part of this data was collected via an IoT device called the InnoTab which is a wifi connected tablet designed for young kids; think Fisher Price designing an iPad. But let's not stop there because in fairness to VTech, it's not like they're the only ones to have had serious issues in their IoT toys. You know what they hate?

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. The mainstreaming of IoT IoT very clearly has gone mainstream.

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