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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Connected medical devices, also known as the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT, are revolutionizing healthcare, not only from an operational standpoint but related to patient care. Many connected devices ship with inherent vulnerabilities.

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FBI?s router reboot call reminds us why to check for updates

The Parallax

On May 25, the FBI issued a clarion call to a broad swath of Wi-Fi router owners: To clear out a potential botnet malware infection, reboot your router. The malware, VPNFilter, allowed hackers to snoop on all traffic passing through the router, including stealing website log-ins, as well as disable the device.

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Internet of Termites

AlienVault

Termite popped up on our radar when we were reviewing malicious binaries compiled to run on IoT architectures. Termite is available for a range of different operating systems and architectures including x86 ARM, PowerPC, Motorola, SPARC and Renesas. The Xsser malware communicates with a familiar hostname apache2012.epac[.]to

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Securing IoMT Devices: Best Practices for Hospitals to Prevent Cyberattacks

Ivanti

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has revolutionized the healthcare industry, connecting medical devices to the internet and allowing for greater patient care. Encryption of stored data is critical for protecting confidential information from unauthorized access, while firewalls and IPS protect against external threats and malware.

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The Right Approach to Securing 5G

Palo Alto Networks

To avoid problems down the road for mobile operators and others looking to this technology to revolutionize their ecosystems, we need to consider three key challenges for securing 5G: the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G cloud adoption, and the development of standards and best practices.

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Three Reasons Endpoint Security Can’t Stop With Just Patching

Ivanti

AI generated polymorphic exploits can bypass leading security tools Recently, AI-generated polymorphic malware has been developed to bypass EDR and antivirus, leaving security teams with blind spots into threats and vulnerabilities. EAP-TLS authentication for our IoT network devices managed over the air.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Prossimo is a project of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) for discovering and fixing memory safety issues in Internet infrastructure code, and (more generally) to change the way programmers think about memory safety. Internet of Things. Distributed computing with E. Smart devices that don’t work are really dumb.

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