IoT-Home-Guard - A Tool For Malicious Behavior Detection In IoT Devices

IoT-Home-Guard is a project to help people discover malware in smart home devices. For users the project can help to detect compromised smart home devices. For security researchers it is also useful in network analysis and malicious hehaviors detection. In July 2018 we had completed the first...

Forrester: Ransomware Set to Resurge As Firms Pay Off Attacks

SAN FRANCISCO – Ransomware may be poised to return as a top scourge for companies, as more and more of them pay up after an attack in an effort to minimize the cost of recovery. That’s just one insight gleaned from an interview at RSA Conference 2019 last week with Josh Zelonis, senior analyst at...

RSA Conference 2019: The Expanding Automation Platform Attack Surface

SAN FRANCISCO – Automation platforms are increasingly being used to chain multiple IoT devices together to create user-friendly smart applications – but that’s also creating unpredictable attack surfaces that can be hard to manage. A Trend Micro report released at RSA Conference 2019 warns that...

RSA Conference 2019: Operational Technology Widens Supply Chain Attack Surfaces

SAN FRANCISCO – Today’s supply chain has evolved, with operational technology OT used in factories increasingly becoming connected and converging with IT systems — introducing new attack vectors. This new reality is vital for companies to understand in the context of risk, according to Dawn...

This Week in Security News: IoT Threats and Risks

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 the threats and risks to complex IoT environments. Also, learn about new security challenges and risks the food production...

The sights and sounds of Cisco Talos at RSA 2019

An estimated 45,000 people attended this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco to hear talks from some of the greatest minds in security. As always, Cisco and Talos had a massive presence at the conference, topping off the week with a keynote address featuring Matt Watchinski, the vice president...

Cyber Security Week in Review (March 8)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week Chinese tech company Huawei i...

RSA Conference 2019: Firms Continue to Fail at IoT Security

SAN FRANCISCO – Low prices and firms racing products to market are two of the biggest factors when it comes to why Internet of Things devices are not getting the type of security do diligence they deserve. According to Checkmarx researcher Erez Yalon, despite years of the infosec community soundi...

RSA Conference 2019: Ultrasound Hacked in Two Clicks

SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers have highlighted the endemic insecurity of the hospital environment by executing a proof-of-concept attack on an ultrasound machine. In doing so, they were able to gain access to the machine’s entire database of patient ultrasound images. Check Point Research worked wi...

RSAC 2019: For Domestic Abuse, IoT Devices Pose New Threat

SAN FRANCISCO – The influx of connected products in the home – from smart thermometers to connected locks – presents a disturbing new threat surface for victims of domestic abuse. That’s what Lisa Green, senior director of operations at Independent Security Evaluators, is warning conference-goers...

CVE-2019-0741

The CVE-2019-0741 entry describes an information-disclosure vulnerability in the Microsoft Azure IoT Java SDK where sensitive user data is logged. Affected component/file: the Java SDK’s logging of sensitive information. Root cause: logs may contain confidential data if logs are exposed, enabling...

CVE-2019-0741

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK logs sensitive information, aka 'Azure IoT Java SDK Information Disclosure Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-0729

The CVE-2019-0729 entry concerns Microsoft Azure IoT Java SDK. The connected MSRC advisory specifies the root cause as improper randomness in symmetric key generation, enabling an attacker to derive/predict the generated keys and gain elevated privileges. Affected component: Azure IoT Java SDK (k...

CVE-2019-0729

An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK generates symmetric keys for encryption, allowing an attacker to predict the randomness of the key, aka 'Azure IoT Java SDK Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-0729

An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK generates symmetric keys for encryption, allowing an attacker to predict the randomness of the key, aka 'Azure IoT Java SDK Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-0741

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK logs sensitive information, aka 'Azure IoT Java SDK Information Disclosure Vulnerability'...

Privilege escalation

An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK generates symmetric keys for encryption, allowing an attacker to predict the randomness of the key, aka 'Azure IoT Java SDK Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

Information disclosure

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK logs sensitive information, aka 'Azure IoT Java SDK Information Disclosure Vulnerability'...

RSA Conference 2019: How to Be Better, on Trust, AI and IoT

SAN FRANCISCO – The slogan of this year’s RSA Conference is “Better” – and accordingly, Tuesday morning’s keynotes zeroed in on reversing some of the disturbing sociological trends that have been festering of late. That includes “information warfare,” meant to undermine citizens’ trust in media a...

Beauty Out of Chaos: Elevating Cybersecurity to an Art Form – Part 1

How many of you can remember what it was like managing IT security 10 years ago? How about two decades? The truth is that the landscape was so utterly different back then that any comparisons with today are a little unfair. Yet they’re useful in one key regard: to teach us just how complex and...