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...

Faulty Firmware Auto-Update Breaks Hundreds of 'Smart Locks'

More features, more problems! Today, we are living in a digital age that is creating a digital headache for people by connecting every other unnecessary home appliance to the Internet. Last week, nearly hundreds of Internet-connected locks became inoperable after a faulty software update hit some...

Penetrating a Casino's Network through an Internet-Connected Fish Tank

Attackers used a vulnerability in an Internet-connected fish tank to successfully penetrate a casino's network. BoingBoing post...

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...

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...

FBI Releases Article on Privacy Risks Associated with Internet-Connected Children's Toys

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the privacy risks associated with Internet-connected children's toys. FBI warns that Internet-connected toys may contain "sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities - including speech...

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...

Children's Voice Messages Leaked in CloudPets Database Breach

More than two million voice messages, many of them from children, along with the personal information of more than 800,000 registered users was swiped from an exposed MongoDB instance storing data collected from a internet-connected toy called CloudPets. These IP-enabled teddy bears allow childre...

Internet-Connected Teddy Bear Leaks Millions Of Voice Messages and Password

Every parent should think twice before handing out Internet-connected toys or smart toys to their children, as these creepy toys pose a different sort of danger: privacy and data security risks for kids who play with them. This same incident was happened over a year ago when Hong Kong toymaker...

How to Protect All Your Internet-Connected Home Devices From Hackers

How many Internet-connected devices do you have in your home? I am surrounded by around 25 such devices. It's not just your PC, smartphone, and tablet that are connected to the Internet. Today our homes are filled with tiny computers embedded in everything from security cameras, TVs and...

FBI Director — You Should Cover Your Webcam With Tape

Should you put a tape or a sticker over the lens of your laptop's webcam? Yes, even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and FBI Director James Comey do that. Covering your laptop's webcam might be a hell cheap and good idea to guard against hackers and intruders who might want to watch your private life...

A Backdoor in Socat? Going Dark, IoT, and Previewing SAS 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain. Download:...

Car Hacking ? Scary, But Now it’s REALITY!

Next time you find yourself hooked up behind the wheel, make sure that your car is actually in your control. Hackers are now able to break into hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road. Car hacking is a hot topic today and until now it was performed only while researchers were hard-wired int...

Command Vulnerabilities Plague IP Enabled AirLive Cameras

A handful of IP-enabled cameras are susceptible to command injection vulnerabilities that could let attackers decode user credentials and gain complete access to the devices. At least five different types of AirLive cameras, manufactured by OvisLink Corp., an IP surveillance networking solutions...

Shodan Scanner ENIP Request

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices, which may be used to discover vulnerable devices connected to the Internet, as a preliminary stage before launching an attack...

Shodan Scanner BACNET Request

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices, which may be used to discover vulnerable devices connected to the Internet, as a preliminary stage before launching an attack...

Shodan Scanner GTP Request

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices, which may be used to discover vulnerable devices connected to the Internet, as a preliminary stage before launching an attack...