Billions of Devices Open to Wi-Fi Eavesdropping Attacks

SAN FRANCISCO — A serious vulnerability in Wi-Fi chips has been discovered that affects billions of devices worldwide, according to researchers. It allows attackers to eavesdrop on Wi-Fi communications. The bug CVE-2019-15126 stems from the use of an all-zero encryption key in chips made by...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

Azure Sphere—Microsoft’s answer to escalating IoT threats—reaches general availability

Today Azure Sphere—Microsoft’s integrated security solution for IoT devices and equipment—is widely available for the development and deployment of secure, connected devices. Azure Sphere’s general availability milestone couldn’t be timelier. From consumer device hacking and botnets to nation sta...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe how large companies have become central control points for our data. And for maybe half a decade, I have been talking about the...

RSAC 2020: Editors' Preview of Hottest Sessions, Speakers and Themes

The RSA 2020 conference kicks off next week in San Francisco, this year with a theme looking at the “human element” of cybersecurity. As they prepare to cover the show, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the biggest news, stories and trends that they...

This Week in Security News: LokiBot Impersonates Popular Game Launcher and DRBControl Espionage Operation Hits Gambling, Betting Companies

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a variant of LokiBot that has been discovered impersonating a popular game launcher, known for Fortnite, to trick users into...

Policy vs Technology

Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. Matt Blaze and Ron Rivest were with me; I don't remember who else. We met with then Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey. He didn'...

Internet of Things Candle

There's a Kickstarter for an actual candle, with real fire, that you can control over the Internet. What could possibly go wrong?...

New Microsoft Security innovations and partnerships

Today on the Official Microsoft Blog, Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of the Cybersecurity Solutions Group, shared how Microsoft is helping turn the tide in cybersecurity by putting artificial intelligence AI in the hands of defenders. She announced the general availability of Microsoft...

Free import of AWS CloudTrail logs through June 2020 and other exciting Azure Sentinel updates

SecOps teams are increasingly challenged to protect assets across distributed environments, analyze the growing volume of security data, and prioritize response to real threats. As a cloud-native SIEM solution security information and event management, Azure Sentinel uses artificial intelligence ...

Defending the power grid against supply chain attacks—Part 1: The risk defined

Most people don’t think about electricity. If the internet works, their food is refrigerated, and their debit card is approved, why should they? Its ubiquity and reliability render it invisible—a bit of magic that powers much of modern life. That is, until a large storm passes through. Localized...

IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway Code Execution Vulnerability

IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway is an IoT solution. A security vulnerability exists in IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway. The vulnerability arises from a networked system or product performing operations in memory without properly validating data boundaries, resulting in incorrect read and write...

I know where you rode last summer: Uncovering the security issues of shared scooter services

We recently discovered flaws in the security of shared electric scooter services that have worrying implications for the safety and privacy of their users. Not only is it possible to remotely ring the bells of scooters all over the world, but external parties are able to track the location and...

Why You Need Cloud-Based Security for Agile, Innovative and Lean IT

Digital transformation isn't just a buzzworthy trend or a finite phase for today's businesses. Rolling adaptation to an ever-changing environment and continuous digital evolution has become the new normal for enterprises -- the key to success in this agile, demanding, and hyper-connected age. To...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2019

News overview In the past quarter, DDoS organizers continued to harness non-standard protocols for amplification attacks. In the wake of WS-Discovery, which we covered in the previous report, cybercriminals turned to Apple Remote Management Service ARMS, part of the Apple Remote Desktop ARD...

Partner Perspectives: Protecting Industrial Control Systems with Verve Industrial’s Endpoint Management and Carbon Black App Control

Imagine waking up in the morning, flipping on your light switch and nothing happens. The natural human response is to flip the switch a few more times before realizing something is wrong. You jump out of bed and notice the smart coffeemaker has not brewed a fresh cup of coffee that you’ve come to...

A week in security (February 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at Washington state’s latest efforts in providing better data privacy rights for their residents, and we dove into some of the many questions regarding fintech: What is it? How secure is it? And what are some of the problems in the space? We also detailed...

Netdata - Real-time Performance Monitoring

Netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It is a highly-optimized monitoring agent you install on all your systems and containers. Netdata provides unparalleled insights , in real-time , of everything happening on the systems it runs...