Open MQTT Servers Raise Physical Threats in Smart Homes

Tens of thousands of consumer-grade Internet of Things IoT servers have been found wide-open on the internet, allowing cybercriminals to potentially compromise homeowners’ physical security. Bad actors can gain complete access to smart-home footprints to track owners’ movements, see if smart door...

Data Pours from Cloud—And ‘The Enemy is Us’

Accenture, Verizon, Dow Jones and Deep Root Analytics are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the millions of private records and sensitive enterprise data exposed on cloud backends this year. And the problem is getting worse not better. “The enemy is us,” said Chris Vickery, director of...

US-CERT Warns of Issues With DNS Zone Transfer Requests

The US-CERT is warning administrators and network operators that a misconfiguration issue with some DNS servers that has been known about for more than 15 years and can give attackers detailed information about DNS zones is coming back around thanks to new scans that show a high number of servers...