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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door.

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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

Source (New) IT services USA Yes 1,382 Worthen Industries Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Manufacturing USA Yes 1,277 R.J. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes Unknown Human Events. Most notably, it’s banning bad default passwords on IoT (Internet of Things) devices, becoming the first country to do so.

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Then there's network security. What's this?

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Then there's network security. What's this?

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DECIPHER SECURITY PODCAST WITH FORALLSECURE CEO DAVID BRUMLEY

ForAllSecure

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Then there's network security. What's this?

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Backdoors.

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