Value of Integrations Highlighted At Fortinet’s Accelerate 18 Conference

Changing the hearts and minds of security teams is no easy task. Everyone has been told for so long how to protect their environment, and more importantly how to buy the various tools needed to enable that protection. Collectively we’ve adopted the unintentional job of assuming all these things...

Survey Says: So Long Grey Skies - Telecoms 2018 Outlook

Nominum, a part of Akamai, recently partnered with Telecoms.com to survey over 1,500 telecom professionals to get a sense of their concerns, initiatives and expectations for 2018. The findings are captured in the report Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey 2017. Top concerns, outlined A top concer...

Mirai Variant ‘OMG’ Turns IoT Devices into Proxy Servers for Cryptomining

By Waqas Mirai IoT bot malware is one such piece of malicious This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mirai Variant 'OMG' Turns IoT Devices into Proxy Servers for Cryptomining...

Recline on the Qualys Couch: Examining Patching Behavior

In a perfect world, organizations would patch vulnerabilities immediately after they’re disclosed, preemptively blocking exploits and dodging most cyber attacks. Of course, reality is far from that hypothetically ideal state. Organizations often leave critical vulnerabilities unpatched for months...

IoT hack: how to break a smart home… again

There can never be too many IoT gadgets – that's what people usually think when buying yet another connected device with advanced functionality. From our perspective, we also think there can't be too many IoT investigations. So, we have continued our experiments into checking and uncovering how...

CVE-2017-14910

In Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon IoT and Snapdragon Mobile MDM9206 MDM9607, MDM9650, S820A, S820Am, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, and SD 845, a buffer overread is possible if there are no newlines in an input file...

CVE-2017-14910

In Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon IoT and Snapdragon Mobile MDM9206 MDM9607, MDM9650, S820A, S820Am, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, and SD 845, a buffer overread is possible if there are no newlines in an input file...

CVE-2017-14910

The vulnerability CVE-2017-14910 affects Qualcomm/Qualcomm-derived Snapdragon platforms used in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon IoT, and Snapdragon Mobile (MDM9206/9607/9650, S820A/S820Am, SD 210/212/205, 410/12, 425, 430, 615/16/415, 617, 625, 650/52, 820, 835, 845). The issue is a buffer over...

This Week in Security News: Bank Robberies and Whaling

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, business leaders share their tips on keeping their companies safe, hackers stole from a Russian central bank, and Google reveals a new...

Multiple IoT Vendors – Multiple Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities summary The following advisory describes three 3 vulnerabilities found in the following vendors: Lorex StarVedia Eminent Kraun The vulnerabilities found: Hard-coded credentials Remote command injection 2 It is possible to chain the vulnerabilities and to achieve unauthenticated...

CVE-2017-14910: Out-of-bounds Read

In Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon IoT and Snapdragon Mobile MDM9206 MDM9607, MDM9650, S820A, S820Am, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, and SD 845, a buffer overread is possible if there are no newlines in an input file...

Securing IoT Networks

Q: How do you segment a mesh? A: You can’t. Legacy IoT devices, Industrial Control Systems with custom networking, are exceptionally difficult to secure. Typically, these devices contain only enough compute capabilities to support their primary operational function. They have limited memory, low...

Securing Our Connected Car Future with Panasonic

There are few more exciting frontiers of the Internet of Things IoT than connected cars. Gartner predicts that there will be 61 million vehicles with built-in connectivity on our roads by 2020. But as we drive ever closer to a future where autonomous vehicles are a commonplace sight, we must be...

Securing Our Connected Car Future with Panasonic

There are few more exciting frontiers of the Internet of Things IoT than connected cars. Gartner predicts that there will be 61 million vehicles with built-in connectivity on our roads by 2020. But as we drive ever closer to a future where autonomous vehicles are a commonplace sight, we must be...

New IoT Botnet DoubleDoor Bypass Firewall to Drop Backdoor

By Waqas A new Internet of Things IoT botnet campaign dubbed as This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New IoT Botnet DoubleDoor Bypass Firewall to Drop Backdoor...

Humans, Machines and Data: Fighting Mirai, Together

By Yohai Einav, Hongliang Liu Background It's been 18 months since Mirai entered our lives, and, unfortunately, we expect it to have a perennial presence in our cyber-world for years to come. If we look at the big picture, all indicators suggest that the Mirai problem and its descendants is just...

Watch Out! New Cryptocurrency-Mining Android Malware is Spreading Rapidly

Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, threat actors are increasingly targeting every platform, including IoT, Android, and Windows, with malware that leverages the CPU power of victims' devices to mine cryptocurrency. Just last month, Kaspersky researchers spotted fake antivirus and...

February 5, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Philadelphia Eagles” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 5, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Ransomware detection and...

Software Defined Radio Attack Tool: RFCrack

RFCrack is my personal RF test bench, it was developed for testing RF communications between any physical device that communicates over sub Ghz frequencies. IoT devices, Cars, Alarm Systems etc… Testing was done with the Yardstick One on OSX, but RFCrack should work fine in linux. Current support...

This Week in Security News: Magic Quadrants & Global Threats

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, Gartner released its Magic Quadrant Leaders, Data Privacy Day gave us a moment to reflect, and U.K. and U.S. governments alike acted to...