Remove 10
article thumbnail

Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. Second place went to China (17%).

IoT 82
article thumbnail

Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7 million payment cards and 1.2

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices: GeoEdge

eSecurity Planet

Siev also couldn’t say exactly what the attackers were looking for or how they were manipulating the devices but did say that generally bad actors target IoT devices to either steal personal information or money like credit card numbers and to manipulate home systems like gates, safes and door locks. billion in 2018. percent to search.

IoT 145
article thumbnail

Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation

Troy Hunt

In part 2 of the series, I want to talk about data ownership and minimisation and this is all about reducing the impact on individuals and organisations alike when things do go wrong. Who Owns Our Personal Data? The owner can request the organisation provide them with a copy of their data ("right of access").

article thumbnail

2017 Retrospective

Troy Hunt

Things like the most popular posts: The Onliner Spambot post was more than twice as popular as the next biggest post and both the top 2 were about massive dumps of personal data on the web. post of the year and I'm also happy to see 2 posts on HTTPS making it into the top 10 pages. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

IT 47