Why Ring Doorbells Perfectly Exemplify the IoT Security Crisis

A new wave of reports about the home surveillance cameras getting hijacked by creeps is painfully familiar...

Your Smart Christmas Lights Are Safer Than They Were Last Year

Thinking about putting up smart Christmas lights but worried about your internet of things IoT security? You can rest a bit easier this year because at least one festive light option is a bit safer than it used to be, new research has found. Manufacturers of the Twinkly smart lights have taken in...

Top 5 Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Predictions for 2020

We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post. Compliance fatigue will spread among security professionals Being a source of ongoing controversy and debate, the...

Pwning a Smart Car Charger, Building a Botnet

…or Why We Don’t Build Commercial IoT on a Raspberry Pi. A positive story of disclosure and remediation. We’re quite into our electric vehicles at PTP, so we started hunting for a smart car charger. There are plenty of industrial chargers out there and some research has been done in the past. We...

Microsoft Intelligent Security Association grows to more than 80 members

Sometimes an idea sparks, and it feels so natural, so organic, that it takes on a life of its own and surprises you by how fast it grows. The Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA was one of these ideas. It was born out of a desire to be easy to do business with and be a better partner ...

IoT security will set innovation free: Azure Sphere general availability scheduled for February 2020

Today, at the IoT Solutions World Congress, we announced that Azure Sphere will be generally available in February of 2020. General availability will mark our readiness to fulfill our security promise at scale, and to put the power of Microsoft’s expertise to work for our customers every day—by...

Objections to IoT regulation. A rational reply

I often hear objections to consumer IoT regulation, specifically IoT security regulation. It's typically from industry lobby groups that have a vested interest in keeping regulation very ‘light touch’. Their mantra is: It’ll stifle innovation and increase cost I strongly disagree, and here’s why...

CVE-2019-13120

CVE-2019-13120 affects Amazon FreeRTOS up to v1.4.8. The vulnerability arises from insufficient length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, which can cause untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory on a device when an attacker sends a malformed MQTT publish to an Amazon IoT Thing interacting wit...

Answering IoT Security Questions for CISOs

Given the permeating nature of IoT and Industrial IoT devices in our daily lives, from smart homes to smart cities, one cannot escape the growing cybersecurity risks associated with these devices. It might leave CISOs with a lot of questions about how this newer, growing attack vector could impac...

Measuring the Security of IoT Devices

In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. Data Collected: 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Firmware versions 3,333,411 Binaries analyzed Date range of data: 2003-03-24 to 2019-01-24 varies by vendo...

It's Time for IoT Security's Next Big Step

Connected devices are more secure than ever. That's still not nearly enough...

‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty

A 21-year-old man from Vancouver, Wash. has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the "Satori" botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things IoT devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service provider...

News Wrap: Dentist Offices Hit By Ransomware, Venmo Faces Privacy Firestorm

In this week’s news wrap podcast, editor Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the top news of the week – from ransomware attacks to companies responding to outcry over privacy issues. Top stories include: Ring announced it is working with more than 400 US police departments to streamline...

Fortinet FortiNAC Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiNAC is a set of network access control solutions from the U.S. company Fita Fortinet. The product is mainly used for network access control and IoT security. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Fortinet FortiNAC. The vulnerability stems from the lack of proper validation ...

DCMS Practical Guidelines. Actionable information

The DCMS guidelines for IoT security are an excellent set of recommendations. They help developers secure devices by outlining the basic ways one can prevent common security weaknesses from being present in their devices and infrastructure. The recommendations are well thought out, and encourage...

Critical Flaws Found in VxWorks RTOS That Powers Over 2 Billion Devices

Security researchers have discovered almost a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, one of the most widely used real-time operating systems RTOS for embedded devices that powers over 2 billion devices across aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, automotive, consumer electronics, networkin...

Fails and Fixes with IoT

After nearly 6 years of tearing apart 'internet of things' devices, here's a look at the high level fails that we keep seeing. We're not going to go in to point issues such as Wi-Fi credential leakage and Bluetooth compromise: our blog is littered with those! What are the root issues and what can...

CVE-2017-8228

Amcrest IPM-721S (V2.420.AC00.16.R.20160909) contains a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8228) where Amcrest cloud verification for adding cameras to a user’s account is insufficient. An attacker who knows a camera’s serial number and the user’s recent reboot window can add another user’s camera to their ...

IoT Security Regulation is on the Horizon

LONDON, UK – Internet of things IoT device security continues to worry the tech industry – however, experts believe that the right type of global regulation could be key for ensuring security standards. The question is when those regulatory efforts will be fleshed out. Ken Munro, with Pen Test...

Infosecurity Europe: Easing the Clash Between IT and Industrial Worlds

LONDON, UK – Information technology and operational technology are like two sides of the same coin. Their objectives are the same, but too often they don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to priorities, according to cybersecurity experts. Information technology IT teams are tasked with securing and...