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Faraday’s new IoT SoC platform offers enhanced flexibility and scalability for AIoT SoC designs
2019-12-24 03:00

Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, introduced the Faraday FIE3240 FPGA platform, the latest addition to its SoCreative! IoT SoC platform series. The...

Top 10 IoT Disasters of 2019
2019-12-23 14:00

From more widescale, powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to privacy issues in children's connected toys, here are the top IoT disasters in 2019.

Lousy IoT Security
2019-12-19 12:31

DTEN makes smart screens and whiteboards for videoconferencing systems. Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five vulnerabilities of four different...

Study: IoT Devices Have Alarmingly Weak RSA Keys
2019-12-17 13:48

Weakness Lies in Devices Without Quality Entropy SourcesIoT devices are generating duplicate prime numbers while generating RSA keys, putting them at risk of a factoring attack, according to new...

Researchers discover weakness in IoT digital certificates
2019-12-17 12:10

IoT devices are using weak digital certificates that could expose them to attack, according to a study released over the weekend.

Echobot IoT Botnet Casts a Wide Net with Raft of Exploit Additions
2019-12-16 16:44

13 new exploits have been added to the malware's bag of tricks.

Internet of crap (encryption): IoT gear is generating easy-to-crack keys
2019-12-16 14:00

Poor entropy in embedded devices leading to weaker certificates: study A preponderance of weak keys is leaving IoT devices at risk of being hacked, and the problem won't be an easy one to solve.…

Consumers not willing to compromise when it comes to IoT security
2019-12-12 05:30

Nearly three quarters of consumers expect manufacturers of connected IoT devices to protect their devices from hacks, according to Karamba Security. Consumers take IoT security seriously This view...

Week in review: 5G IoT security, efficient password cracking for pentesters, supply chain examination
2019-12-08 11:10

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: 5G IoT security: Opportunity comes with risks Slowly but surely, 5G digital cellular networks are being set up around...

Critical Flaw in GoAhead Web Server Could Affect Wide Range of IoT Devices
2019-12-04 04:48

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered details of two new vulnerabilities in the GoAhead web server software, a tiny application widely embedded in hundreds of millions of Internet-connected...