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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. This attacker easily located IoT devices that used the manufacturers’ default security setting. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% This variant of fraud has been around since at least 2011, when an Australian Broadcasting Corporation employee with high-level IT access privileges hijacked company computers to mine Bitcoin.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

This was a few months after the Jeep Cherokee hack and that event had the entire industry’s attention. ” So it’s not surprising that this recording coincided with another major security event. ” So it’s not surprising that this recording coincided with another major security event. “Hi, Rob.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

This was a few months after the Jeep Cherokee hack and that event had the entire industry’s attention. ” So it’s not surprising that this recording coincided with another major security event. ” So it’s not surprising that this recording coincided with another major security event. “Hi, Rob.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Car Hacking 0x05

ForAllSecure

You can do what's called a replay attack by capturing the codes and replaying them, or you can use a previously successful rollover sequence to calculate the key fob code of the next car from the same manufacturer. Vamosi: The exact number of these ECUs varies depending on the price of the car or the needs of the manufacturer.