Security News

Medical devices and the Internet of Things: Defending against cyber threats (Help Net Security)
2017-08-16 12:00

More than one-third (35.6 percent) of surveyed professionals in the Internet of Things-connected medical device ecosystem say their organizations have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the...

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things: Part 3 - A Real World Example (Security Week)
2017-08-01 11:18

One of the most bizarre beginnings in movie history involved a young Paul Newman decapitating a streetful of Duncan Model 50 parking meters in the existential-hero classic, “Cool Hand Luke.” Those...

Endpoint Security and the Internet of Things (Security Week)
2017-06-13 03:24

In 2016, the Mirai Botnet hijacked over half a million DVRs and IP cameras, redirecting traffic from these endpoints to some of the internet’s largest brands and taking many services offline. To...

Safety and Security and the Internet of Things (Schneier on Security)
2017-06-08 12:15

Ross Anderson blogged about his new paper on security and safety concerns about the Internet of Things. (See also this short video.) It's very much along the lines of what I've been writing....

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things Part 2: Three Steps to Pizza (Security Week)
2017-06-07 17:16

Part 1 of this series posited that the Internet of Things (IoT) needs a more rigorous security application than it currently has, lest we end up building another patchy, vulnerability-ridden...

Ransomware and the Internet of Things (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-25 11:15

As devastating as the latest widespread ransomware attacks have been, it's a problem with a solution. If your copy of Windows is relatively current and you've kept it updated, your laptop is...