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LTE IoT market is expected to register a healthy CAGR of over 28% during the forecast period, accordig to ResearchAndMarkets. The growth of connected devices and the need for unique and defined network qualities are fueling the growth of the LTE IoT market.

Even when the mobile phone age arrived, the Chatter Phone retained its dial, its cheese-dish phone styling, and its sideways receiver. We don't how how or if you can dial the plus symbol for overseas calls, but many countries let you use a special digit sequence instead. So, the Chatter Telephone doesn't take a SIM card itself; instead, it pairs with a regular mobile phone and acts, if you like, as a sort of extension - a happy, smiley, cheerful, brightly coloured, child-like extension phone with an actual rotary dial.

There is a real silent IoT battle going on, and tens of thousands of IoT devices have already been compromised. In order to give you an idea about the level of awareness that is on the rise, the Epidemiology Lab of Orange Cyberdefense provides us with some exciting and frightening figures: In 2019, for example, a vulnerable IoT device could be infected in less than 3 minutes, and in 2021, an IoT device is attacked on an average of 2814 times every single day by more than 100 different botnets trying to hijack it.

A three-year-long honeypot experiment featuring simulated low-interaction IoT devices of various types and locations gives a clear idea of why actors target specific devices. IoT devices are a booming market that includes small internet-connected devices such as cameras, lights, doorbells, smart TVs, motion sensors, speakers, thermostats, and many more.

DUCK. That's worrying, because when I checked my Tor browser version, it didn't have the latest NSS, but it had a more recent one than 1999, so that timestamp may be wrong. DUCK. Yes, of all the browsers that you probably want to avoid having [LAUGHS] exploitable privacy violating holes in.

The UK legislature is currently interested in a law about what it calls PSTI, short for Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure. It's a much more modest regulatory proposal, and unlike those proposals that aim to disrupt security and cryptography "Just in case we ever lock the keys in the car", its goal is to demand a modest increase in security and basic cyber-reliability in products such as mobile phones, fitness trackers, internet webcams, cloud doorbells, and temperature sensors for your pet fish.

A new British IoT product security law is racing through the House of Commons, with the government boasting it will outlaw default admin passwords and more. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill was introduced yesterday and is intended to drive up security standards in consumer tech gadgetry, ranging from IoT devices to phones, fondleslabs, smart TVs, and so on.

Multiple security weaknesses have been disclosed in MediaTek system-on-chips that could have enabled a threat actor to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the firmware of the audio processor, effectively allowing the attackers to carry out a "Massive eavesdrop campaign" without the users' knowledge. The discovery of the flaws is the result of reverse-engineering the Taiwanese company's audio digital signal processor unit by Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Research, ultimately finding that by stringing them together with other flaws present in a smartphone manufacturer's libraries, the issues uncovered in the chip could lead to local privilege escalation from an Android application.

As the automotive industry rapidly evolves and cars become smarter, cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated too, constantly finding new ways to compromise connected vehicles. To select a suitable automotive IoT security solution, you need to think about a variety of factors.

The overall security in IoT market will reach $52.3 billion globally by 2026, while distributed denial of service protection for IoT systems will reach $1.58 globally by 2026, a ResearchAndMarkets report reveals. Other report findings Driven largely by commercial retrofits, IoT security in smart buildings will reach $4.55 globally by 2026.