Tag: IoT Security
IIoT security: Xage combines blockchain, digital fingerprinting
IoT security specialist Xage claims to have developed a tamper-proof system that protects Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) assets with a combination of blockchain technology...
Helium launches blockchain machine network for the IoT
Helium is introducing an open-source blockchain machine network that promises to unleash a new IoT era.
Internet of things devices can be expensive, bulky, and...
Researchers find Amazon Alexa could eavesdrop on customers
NEWSBYTE Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability that enabled Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, to listen in on people’s conversations after the 'Alexa' wake-up word had...
NSA’s IoT security algorithms rejected over surveillance fears
NEWSBYTE The US National Security Agency (NSA) has had two of its new encryption algorithms for the Internet of Things (IoT) rejected by an...
Facebook & Microsoft pledge not to aid government cyber attacks
Over 30 technology companies have signed a new accord, promising to protect all customers – citizens and businesses – from government or state agency...
Hackers steal casino’s customer data via connected fish tank
NEWSBYTE CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, Nicole Eagan, has shared details of an embarrassing casino data breach. The anecdote appears to epitomise the flaws...
Healthcare, SMEs biggest targets of security attacks, says Verizon
NEWSBYTE SMEs and healthcare organisations are the biggest targets of hackers and organised criminals, according to Verizon, with personal, medical, and financial data firmly...
Security: Why you should worry about unsecured IoT devices – Mozilla
The BIG READ. Mozilla has published the full version of its long-awaited Internet Health Report 2018. Chris Middleton looks at what it has to...
Industrial IoT: Consortium sets out new IoT security benchmarks
The Industrial Internet Consortium maturity model sets out practical ways to achieve better IoT security via a benchmarking and maturity process.
The Industrial Internet Consortium...
A10 Networks announces firewall to secure 5G, IoT deployments
NEWSBYTE Reading-based cybersecurity firm A10 Networks has unveiled a new firewall product to help service providers secure their 5G and IoT deployments.
The company...
IoT security: Half of IT departments don’t change default passwords
Almost half (47 percent) of CIOs and IT managers have allowed IoT devices onto their corporate network without changing the default passwords – even...
No Under Armour: 150 million users’ data lifted from MyFitnessPal
NEWSBYTE US fitness giant Under Armour, which owns the MyFitnessPal application and community, has announced that the usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords of...