Adam Levin

AUGUST 13, 2018

Security researchers at the recent Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas have placed malware on pacemakers as a proof-of-concept hack to highlight the potential for security vulnerabilities in IoT-enabled medical devices. Medtronic manufactures the targeted pacemakers. Read more here.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors. Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. Another tech industry consultancy, IDC, forecasts worldwide IoT spending will hit a record $745 billion in 2019 , some 15.4%

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) regulatory framework. OCR chooses cases based on perceived importance and message.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

We do white papers and thought leadership at conferences. On the operating side, whether it’s manufacturing or energy generation, or whatever, those folks are not security experts and they don’t have a connection with IT security people.” It’s membership and cross-industry driven.” OT and IT convergence.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

On November 8, 2012, the 84th Conference of the German Data Protection Commissioners concluded in Frankfurt (Oder). During the Conference, four Resolutions were adopted. Operating system manufacturers must implement strong encryption algorithms in their Transmission Control Protocol (“TCP”) and Internet Protocol (“IP”) stacks.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. For the US government, with perimeter monitoring there’s always a trade off in the ability to monitor traffic and the natural movement of the entire Internet towards encryption by default. National Security Agency.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. So the thing was that one major German car manufacturer had the standard pin of 1234. It wasn't very robust. It was a mere 40 bit key length.

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Info Source

JUNE 28, 2022

As all of us here at Infosource gear up for the Capture Conference (September 7 and 8 in Chicago, be there or be square!), The difference is that OpenText is a commercially available driver that the scanner manufacturers have developed for them and that allows a software application to talk to the device.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates. But rightly or wrongly, the risk you take when using devices in a fashion they weren't designed for is that the manufacturer may break that functionality at some time.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 12, 2013

The FTC notes that mobile payments have different funding sources conferring different levels of protection. The Report describes technologies that can encrypt the entire payment chain or generate unique payment information for each transaction.

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Privacy Data collection Manufacturing Paper 40

Info Source

JUNE 28, 2022

As all of us here at Infosource gear up for the Capture Conference (September 7 and 8 in Chicago, be there or be square!), The difference is that OpenText is a commercially available driver that the scanner manufacturers have developed for them and that allows a software application to talk to the device.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This meant they weren’t encrypted, making them freely accessible to as many as 20,000 employees, most of whom had no legitimate reason to access the information. The alarm manufacturers provide an app – which they claimed was “unhackable” – that allows users to lock their cars using their smartphone.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5 Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. We know that you know, manufacturing is an area that we've seen a lot of targets over the last quarter. Again, because if you bring down manufacturing operations, there's a high impact to the business and necessity to recover quickly.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 17, 2018

Dan and I discuss some of the flaws in the approach that medical device makers take to security, and how manufacturers can take a page out of their own book: applying the same standards to cyber security as they do to – say- device safety. . “Manufacturers need to take a step back,” he said.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ollam: so locks at DEF CON and locks it at any hacker conference. Vamosi: DEFCON wasn't the first conference to host lockpicking as we're about to hear the Dutch were way ahead of other countries in providing lockpicking as a sport or hackers. They've been around, right they've been on somebody's table at lunch or in a hallway.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Yeah, there are tracks at conferences, but it hasn't yet exploded into the mainstream. And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers? There's been a few different ones that have been on eBay for different manufacturers and I bought a few of them. I mean, it's a talk that I gave it a new radio conference.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

What is the allure of lockpicking at hacker conferences? Ollam: Locks it at any hacker conference they've been around right they've been on somebody's table at lunch or in a hallway. Vamosi: DEF CON wasn’t the first conference to host pock picking. Lock picking is a part of most legitimate hacker conferences.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

What is the allure of lockpicking at hacker conferences? Ollam: Locks it at any hacker conference they've been around right they've been on somebody's table at lunch or in a hallway. Vamosi: DEF CON wasn’t the first conference to host pock picking. Lock picking is a part of most legitimate hacker conferences.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB’s report Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 examines various aspects of cybercrime industry operations and predicts changes to the threat landscape for various sectors, namely the financial industry, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and the energy sector. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In this industry, there's everything from income-producing equipment to conferences to charitable donations to an organisation like Let's Encrypt that can reduce your tax bill (obviously get expert advice on this if you're not sure). Optimising your tax position is free money. Free legal money and there are many, many ways to do it.

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