Tag: internet of things

April 27, 2017

Everyone has heard of connected insulin pumps and pace makers, but there are some other connected medical devices that might surprise you. Each of them of course pose a security risk to you and your health. Mandeep Khera, Internet of […]

April 7, 2017

Hackers have started adding data-wiping routines to malware that’s designed to infect internet-of-things and other embedded devices. Two attacks observed recently displayed this behavior but likely for different purposes. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks found a new malware program dubbed Amnesia that […]

October 31, 2016

Last week, hackers launched the largest distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks in history against the Domain Name System (DNS) service provider Dyn, taking offline many of its high-profile customers, including PayPal, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon and Netflix. Not only was […]

September 6, 2016

Like mobile and cloud, blockchain — first implemented in the original source code of bitcoin in 2009 — stands poised to profoundly disrupt business. If it lives up to its promise, it won’t just be financial institutions that are disrupted. […]

April 26, 2016

Worldwide spending on Internet of Things security will reach $348 million in 2016, a 23.7 percent increase from 2015 spending of $281.5 million, according to Gartner. Furthermore, spending on IoT security is expected to reach $547 million in 2018. “It’s […]

March 15, 2016

Trend Micro has discovered a new vulnerability that could bring into question the security of the Internet of Things. Our researchers have found a hole in the defenses of the systems on chips (SoCs) produced by Qualcomm Snapdragon that, if exploited, allows root access. […]

August 26, 2015

Commandeered Jeep gets fixed but a ‘hijacked’ satellite network does not? Why Internet of Things security remains a work in progress. Fiat Chrysler’s move to recall 1.4 million vehicles this month in response to a dramatic vulnerability discovery by renowned […]

May 11, 2015

IBM’s Andy Thurai didn’t quite put the words into former RSA CTO Deepak Taneja’s mouth, but did prompt him by asking at the start of a TIE Startup Con panel in Cambridge, Mass., earlier this month whether #internet of things #security […]