IOT Security Pits Regulators Against Market

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Listening to today’s privacy panel at the Security of Things Forum, you might have thought you were beamed back to the early 2000s: government people hinting that legislation might be the ultimate solution for security and privacy concerns when it comes to embedded computers an...

IC3 Issues Alert on IoT Devices

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert to individuals and businesses about the security risks involved with the Internet of Things IoT. IoT refers to the emerging network of devices e.g., smart TVs, home automation systems that connect to one another via the Internet, often...

Chris Valasek Security of Things Forum Keynote

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller’s car hacking research put a crunching reality on Internet of Things security, moving it beyond almost clichéd discussions of smart refrigerators leaking inconsequential data, to hackers remotely manipulating car brakes. But Furby hacking matter...

Samsung Launches 6GB RAM Chips for Next Generation Smartphones

With Launch of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung was the first one to bring 4GB RAM access in the Android mobile phones; with Samsung Note 5 and the current OnePlus 2 carrying the same RAM capacity. Now, today Samsung has again taken the technology a step further with the launch of 12GB LPDDR...

Caution! Hackers Can Easily Hijack Popular Baby Monitors to Watch Your Kids

Several video baby monitors from six different manufacturers were under scrutiny for in-depth security testing, and the outcome was negative. Yes, they lacked in serving basic security through their devices. At the High Technology Crime Investigation Association HTCIA conference on September 2,...

ZigBee is exposed a serious security vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

1, ZigBee is exposed a serious security vulnerability Along with technology the rapid evolution of IOTThe Internet of Things, IoTthe concept once again on the rise, people all around the daily necessities, terminal equipment, and household appliances also gradually been given of the network...

Download Free Windows 10 for the Internet of Things and Raspberry Pi 2

In the month of February 2015, second generation Raspberry Pi was made available and was commonly known as Raspberry Pi 2. Buzz was that Windows 10 will be supporting the hardware for its compatibility with the smart objects, popularly known as the ‘Internet of Things’. So, finally the Free versi...

How Drones Can Find and Hack Internet-of-Things Devices From the Sky

Security researchers have developed a Flying Drone with a custom-made tracking tool capable of sniffing out data from the devices connected to the Internet – better known as the Internet-of-things. Under its Internet of Things Map Project, a team of security researchers at the Texas-based firm...

SSL Encryption — Securing Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things IoT with the purpose of providing convenience to the users enabled every object in the universe to be as smart as a whip. By assigning IP address to all sorts of devices, ranging from household appliances, machines, medical devices and sensors to other day-to-day objects, and...

Most Vulnerable Smart Cities to Cyber Attack on Internet of Things (IoT)

Imagine… You drive to work in your Smart-Car connected to the GPS automatically, but a hacker breaks into your car's network, takes control of the steering wheel, crashes you into a tree, and BOOM! Believe it or not, such cyber attacks on smart devices are becoming reality. Car Hacking was recent...

Cisco to Buy OpenDNS Company for $635 Million

Cisco, a networking giant that offers traditional network edge protection, has announced that the company is buying cloud-based security company OpenDNS for $635 Million. Yes, OpenDNS, whose Domain Name Services DNS you might have used to avoid regional restrictions or to improve your Internet...

5G Mobile Networks to Offer Speed Up To 20Gbps

While many of us are battling with the slow data access and still awaiting the roll-out of 4G Networks, the International Telecommunication Union ITU is already looking forward to the next generation of telecommunication network technology. Yes folks, we are talking about the future 5G standard f...

Kankun Smart Socket / Mobile App Hardcoded AES Key

Hi List, Vulnerability ============= Hardcoded AES 256 bit key used in Kankun IoT/Smart socket and its mobile App Vulnerability Description ========================== The kankun smart socket device and the mobile app use a hardcoded AES 256 bit key to encrypt the commands and responses between th...

Google Brillo OS — New Android-based OS for Internet of Things

Internet of Things is the future, and every big tech companies are trying to become an integral part of this upcoming trend. Keeping this in mind, Google is developing an operating system for connecting all devices via the Internet. Google is expected to launch a new Android-based operating syste...

'Yes, Your Car Wash is On Facebook'

CANCUN–When or if people think about the security of the devices they interact with and use on a daily basis, the machines that run their local car wash probably aren’t high up on that list. But, like everything else with a computer for a brain these days, those machines are connected to the...

Raspberry Pi 2 — $35 Computer with Quad-Core Processor and it runs Free Windows 10

Earlier today, when Raspberry Pi Foundation unveiled the second avatar of its mini computer, the tech giant Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 operating system will support the Raspberry Pi 2 for the development of smart devices and appliances. Really a great news for all Micro-computing fans – a...

Home Hacking Made Simple

SEATTLE–Like most security researchers, David Jacoby is naturally curious about how things work, and whether they can be made to do things they weren’t meant to do. Sitting at home in Sweden a few months ago, he looked at all of the Web-enabled devices in his house–TV, game console, network stora...

CVE-2014-6271

GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the modcgi and modcg...

Windows Server IoT/Windows Storage Server — Support Statement

Support Statement At Veeam, we understand that some customers may have hardware that comes pre-installed with Windows Server IoT or Windows Storage Server, and they may want to use these to fill the role of Veeam-product component servers. While Windows Server IoT and Windows Storage Server are...

Desktop Viruses Coming to Your TV and Connected Home Appliances

Smart Devices are growing at an exponential rate and so are the threats to them. After your Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles and Tablets, now hackers are targeting your Smart TVs, warns Eugene Kaspersky the co-founder and chief executive of Kaspersky Lab. As the increase in the manufactures o...