IoT Devices: The Gift that Keeps on Giving… to Hackers

ARCHIVED STORY IoT Devices: The Gift that Keeps on Giving… to Hackers By Tim Hux · November 16, 2017 McAfee Advanced Threat Research onMost Hackable Gifts You’ve probably noticed the recent increase in Internet connected drones, digital assistants, toys, appliances and other devices hitting the...

IoT is Insecure, Get Over It! Say Researchers

BOSTON—Noted security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said the Internet of Things can’t be secure, but it can be tamed. Drawing from their car hacking experience, the two spent the morning contemplating the larger universe of IoT security and conceded that there will always be thousands ...

Hackers Prepping IOTroop Botnet with Exploits

Hackers moved one step closer to launching full-scale DDoS attacks using millions of IoT devices herded into the botnet known as Reaper or IOTroop. Researchers at NewSky Security warn that hackers are swapping scripts on forums that can scan the internet for vulnerable IoT devices and dump defaul...

Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet

Making predictions is a tricky business and in no area more so than in the area of rapidly developing technology. The pace of change continues to accelerate and the nature of innovation is such that entrepreneurs, as well as criminals are continually searching for “the next big thing” to either...

FBI Asks Businesses to Share Details About DDoS Attacks

The FBI has made an appeal to organizations victimized by DDoS attacks to share details and characteristics of those incidents, echoing a similar plea made last year in the throes of a relentless wave of ransomware attacks. The bureau said victims should contact local field offices regardless of...

Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. Smart cities, connected devices, digitized records, as well as smart cars and homes, have become a new reality. While there are tremendous benefits to this technology, it is critical to...

Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet

This weekend I realized just how much the future of securing the Internet of Things IoT will become a critical component to maintain our lifestyle. CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association to encourage careers in STEM. Each year the program...

CVE-2017-7920

An Improper Authentication issue was discovered in ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card versions 1.8.15 and prior, and VSN300 WiFi Logger Card for React versions 2.1.3 and prior. By accessing a specific uniform resource locator URL on the web server, a malicious user is able to access internal information...

CVE-2017-7920

An Improper Authentication issue was discovered in ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card versions 1.8.15 and prior, and VSN300 WiFi Logger Card for React versions 2.1.3 and prior. By accessing a specific uniform resource locator URL on the web server, a malicious user is able to access internal information...

ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card and VSN300 WiFi Logger Card for React Privilege Gain Vulnerability

The ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card and the VSN300 WiFi Logger Card for React are both wireless data logger card products from Asea Brown Boveri ABB, Switzerland. A security vulnerability exists in ABB VSN300 WiFi Logger Card version 1.8.15 and earlier and VSN300 WiFi Logger Card for React version...

New Bill Seeks Basic IoT Security Standards

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government's purchase and use of a broad range of Internet-connected devices, including computers, routers and security cameras. The legislation, which also seeks to remedy some widely-perceive...

Legislation Proposed to Secure Connected IoT Devices

A Senate bill introduced today would prioritize security in connected devices, requiring providers who sell to the U.S. government to implement measures that would have been an impediment to the IoT botnet-fueled attacks against DNS provider Dyn and webhost OVH. The Internet of Things Cybersecuri...

Vulnerabilities in Car Washes

Articles about serious vulnerabilities in IoT devices and embedded systems are now dime-a-dozen. This one concerns Internet-connected car washes: A group of security researchers have found vulnerabilities in internet-connected drive-through car washes that would let hackers remotely hijack the...

Remotely Exploitable Flaw Puts Millions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk

Security researchers have discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in an open-source software development library used by major manufacturers of the Internet-of-Thing devices that eventually left millions of devices vulnerable to hacking. The vulnerability CVE-2017-9765, discovere...

openwebnet-discovery NSE Script

OpenWebNet is a communications protocol developed by Bticino since 2000. Retrieves device identifying information and number of connected devices. References: Example Usage nmap --script openwebnet-discovery Script Output | openwebnet-discover: | IP Address: 192.168.200.35 | Net Mask: 255.255.255...

WannaCry Ransomware

Criminals go where the money is, and cybercriminals are no exception. And right now, the money is in ransomware. It's a simple scam. Encrypt the victim's hard drive, then extract a fee to decrypt it. The scammers can't charge too much, because they want the victim to pay rather than give up on th...

Malware Hunter — Shodan's new tool to find Malware C&C Servers

Rapidly growing, insecure internet-connected devices are becoming albatross around the necks of individuals and organizations with malware authors routinely hacking them to form botnets that can be further used as weapons in DDoS and other cyber attacks. But now finding malicious servers, hosted ...

Somebody is watching you: IP camera, TV and Emma Watson’s smartphone

Today I want to talk today about privacy in a most natural sense. You probably have an internet-connected device with camera an microphone: smartphone, tablet, smart TV, ip camera, baby monitor, etc. - Can it be used to record video/audio and spy on you? - Of course, yes! - Only government and...

Windows Botnet Spreading Mirai Variant

A Chinese-speaking attacker is spreading a Mirai variant from a repurposed Windows-based botnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab published a report today, and said the code was written by an experienced developer who also built in the capability to spread the IoT malware to Linux machines under...

Mozilla's First Internet Health Report Tackles Security, Privacy

In its first-ever Internet Health Report, the non-profit Mozilla Foundation warned of the dangers of concentrated power among too few internet companies, cyber snooping by nosey governments and new threats posed by connected devices that can further erode privacy. Mozilla released the report this...