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How ‘digital transformation’ gave birth to a new breed of criminal: ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. This is because the digital wizardry driving modern society relies heavily on machine-to-machine communications.

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

The Last Watchdog

This threat actor figured out how to route requests to legitimate DNS resolvers in such a way that those servers would reflect and amplify responses to the targeted website — more than 50 times, swamping the site. This attacker easily located IoT devices that used the manufacturers’ default security setting. Talk more soon.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: How To Get Paid To Hack

ForAllSecure

The general topic of how to get started in InfoSec, that's a given. I mean, it's not clear how you get a job, or even experience for that matter. And, as you'll hear, in some cases, they'll even fly you around the world to learn how to hack. So you train my mind in understanding how web traffic flowed. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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Cranes, drills and other industrial machines exposed to hack by RF protocols

Security Affairs

Researchers from Trend Micro have analyzed the communication protocols used by cranes and other industrial machines and discovered several flaws. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered several vulnerabilities in the communication protocols used by cranes, hoists, drills and other industrial machines.

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

eSecurity Planet

With all this in mind, let’s take a look at what a scammer does, who they target, and how to spot one trying to pick your metaphorical pockets. Here’s How to Do It Right. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% Individuals.

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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. I hit the update button and assumed all would be fine. (it

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

This is the story of a film star who connected the simple concept behind a player piano to complex communication technology in use in our devices today. A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world. Vamosi: Antheil did.