With billions of devices connected in a large Internet of Things, security becomes a major challenge. In this category we emphazise on the problems and how they could be solved.
The European IT security provider ESET was interested in how security and privacy in the constantly growing number of networked households (Smart Homes) is. To this end, ESET conducted a practical test of a selection of IoT devices for Smart Homes.
While the use of hacked or malware-infected IoT devices and networks was mostly limited to using the acquired devices as cyberweapons in order to execute massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks in the past, other threats to IoT devices […]
While researching this article, I realized that digitization and the commonly used term IoT, currently on everyone’s lips, is used in a variety of ways, actually just the umbrella term for a change in our society, in which everything – […]
For more security in IoT the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a chip that can take over the work of software algorithms in the future, uses 99.75% less energy and does the necessary encryption calculations about 500 times faster.
With the millions of devices connected to the Internet, malware finds a perfect breeding ground. The latest scare is a new IoT botnet called “Hide n’ Seek” or short “HNS”. Appearing for the first time around January 10th this year, […]
‘Reaper’ is the new scare. But we’re not lost. We all could do something about it. As well as consumers and especially as manufacturers of IoT devices.
Are inaudible Voice Commands, so called “Dolphin Attacks”, a serious threat for voice controlled smart devices? A team of Chinese researchers published a paper explaining how they used ultrasonic commands, inaudible for the human ear, to take over the control of popular devices such as Amazon Alexa, Google Now or Siri from Apple.
In a recent tweet, researcher Ankit Anubhav, specialized in IoT security, drew attention on a list circling the internet, containing thousands of IP addresses of IoT devices including their login data. Many of the devices are still accessible via Telnet, some of them already have been taken over by botnets. What baffles is that despite the many incidents related to poorly secured IoT devices and constant warnings from security professionals, most of the logins couldn’t been easier to guess: When “admin:admin” or “root:123456” grants access to a device, calling it “hacking” to take control already sounds like an insult. My plea: Think of security first, when you think of the IoT!
A serious security issue relating fully automated car washes made the headlines this week: Researches found a way to manipulate internet-connected drive-through car washes that could physically attack vehicles and their passengers. The problem: configuration of the machines could be changed online. A decentralized system could have avoided that.
The Internet of Things might not grow as quickly as predicted by some market researchers and analysts. In the long term, however, our lives will depend increasingly on connected technologies. The result of this development is that we will be more vulnerable. Despite this, the issue of security is often treated with negligence. But whoever wants to take the easy way out, pushes the residual rest on the “human factor”. We have to think further.
