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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. following shortly after in 2019.

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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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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

And the most prevalent malware in Q4. released in 2018, include an expanded scope beyond critical infrastructure; stronger emphasis on governance; and more guidance, tools and resources to facilitate its implementation. Plus, the latest guidance on cyberattack groups APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat. And much more! came out in 2014.

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

Google’s move to turn Androids themselves—the ones already in consumers’ hands—into the physical keys needed to unlock accounts is a “game changer,” Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist and director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy and Technology , said in an email. “It Android Q adds privacy, fragmentation.

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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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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. We were surprised to find EarthWorm also packed into malware - presumably to provide packet relay functionality. Will Cross-Platform Malware Become a Thing?

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Government Advisories Warn of APT Activity Resulting from Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Tenable

CVE-2018-13379. CVE-2018-13379. This is why these government agencies stress that CDCs “maintain constant vigilance for software vulnerabilities and out-of-date security configurations, especially in internet-facing systems.”. Description. Fortinet FortiGate SSL VPN Path Traversal Vulnerability. CVE-2019-1653. CVE-2019-2725.