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

TechCrunch

million in seed funding from True Ventures with the goal of helping IoT manufacturers reliably and securely deliver software updates to their devices. Thistle lands on the security scene at a time when IoT needs it most. Mirai had ensnared thousands of IoT devices into its network at the time of the attack.

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

The Parallax

Secret to safer IoT is smarter Wi-Fi, hacker Caezar says (Q&A). 5 questions to ask before buying an IOT device. Once the group has profiled the device and tricked the target into installing the hidden malware, it can begin stealing data. How to secure your home Wi-Fi. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things?

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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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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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Top 5 Ways to Improve the Security of Your Business

Kaseya

The Internet of Things (IoT) and unsecured IoT devices are also proving to be a huge risk for SMBs. In 2017, 50,000 cyber-attacks were targeted at IoT devices, an increase of 600 percent from 2016 and the number of IoT-driven malware attacks surpassed 121,000 in 2018.

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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. In terms of specific threats, a bank, for example, should probably be most concerned about the various classes of ATM malware (two dozen or more 9 ).

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