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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. Thistle lands on the security scene at a time when IoT needs it most.

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Your old router could be a hacking group’s APT pawn

The Parallax

In a newly released Symantec study he led, Grange says the hacker group is now using hijacked Wi-Fi routers, Internet of Things devices, and cloud services to cover its tracks. READ MORE ON ROUTERS AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? The long reach of Mirai, the Internet of Things botnet.

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Internet of Termites

AlienVault

Note: As we were publishing this, Symantec released a report on attackers using Termite in the 2018 attack stealing the health data of a quarter of the Singapore population. Termite popped up on our radar when we were reviewing malicious binaries compiled to run on IoT architectures. Will Cross-Platform Malware Become a Thing?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17th, 2018

High Scalability

million : lost in ATM malware hack; $1.5 Keep on reading for many more quotes hot off the internet. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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2018 in Review – Looking Back to See What’s Ahead

Saviynt

To help you take steps to avoid potential identity management and security vulnerabilities, let’s review security trends from 2018 and uncover developments that deserve attention in 2019. In 2018, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) remained a problem, as was human error that fueled several ransomware attacks.

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2018 in Review – Looking Back to See What’s Ahead

Saviynt

To help you take steps to avoid potential identity management and security vulnerabilities, let’s review security trends from 2018 and uncover developments that deserve attention in 2019. In 2018, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) remained a problem, as was human error that fueled several ransomware attacks.

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A Look at the 5 Most Common Types of Cyberattacks

Tenable

Malware: This catch-all term encompasses a number of different cybersecurity threats, including everything from viruses and worms to banking trojans, adware, spyware and ransomware. DoS campaigns can originate from one computer and internet connection or many; the latter are distributed DoS attacks, often coordinated by botnets.