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Internet of Things: Who is watching you?
2018-05-18 12:00

An overwhelming number of IT security professionals (85%) see a cyberattack on critical infrastructure happening in the next five years. Pwnie Express CEO Todd DeSisto says that figure is perhaps...

Protecting the Industrial Internet of Things
2018-05-10 16:33

Asif Effendi of GE Oil and Gas Offers Risk Mitigation InsightsThe industrial internet of things presents a significant new risk paradigm, says Asif Effendi of GE Oil and Gas, who offers threat...

Google Brings Android to Internet of Things
2018-05-09 15:51

Less than a month after Microsoft announced an operating system read more

Effective intrusion detection for the Internet of Things
2018-04-24 12:15

A group of researchers have devised a self-learning system for detecting compromised IoT devices that does not require prior knowledge about device types or labeled training data to operate. “We...

Why PKI will secure the Internet of Things for years to come
2018-03-19 12:55

A long, long time ago, nearly 4,000 years, in a land far, far away ancient cryptography was born. The Place? Egypt. It is there historians believe the technique was invented by priests as a...

Internet of Things security issues bleed into 2018
2018-01-16 14:00

In 2017 Internet of Things (IoT) devices rose to prominence as attackers have continued to target and use them to support various cyberattacks. IoT devices are almost the perfect target for...

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things: Modeling Reaper
2017-12-13 17:37

What a timely way to end this series on Threat Modeling the Internet of Things (IoT). An advanced thingbot, nicknamed Reaper (or IoTroop), was recently discovered infecting hordes of IoT devices....

Defining and securing the Internet of Things
2017-11-22 13:00

The EU Cybersecurity Agency ENISA published a report on the security of the Internet of Things (IoT). The study aims to set the scene for IoT security in Europe. It serves as a reference point in...

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things: Part 4 - Weak Authentication
2017-10-04 12:20

For the first time, one of the largest cyber security conferences in the ASEAN region, the Singapore Internet CyberSecurity Week (SICW), had a track devoted just to the Internet of Things. One...

Review: Securing the Internet of Things (Help Net Security)
2017-08-25 16:42

About the authors Shancang Li is a senior lecturer in the cyber security research unit, Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK....