Security News

Thousands of IoT Devices Bricked By Silex Malware
2019-06-27 16:17

A 14-year-old hacker bricked at least 4,000 Internet of Things devices with a new strain of malware called Silex this week. Threatpost talks to the researcher who discovered the malware.

Your server remote login isn't root:password, right? Cool. You can keep your data. Oh sh... your IoT gear, though?
2019-06-27 06:58

Not-quite-Iranian file-wiping malware emerges as Tehran blamed for rise in cyber-attacks Not content to be the focus of the geopolitical news cycle, Iran now also finds itself in the middle of two...

Mist Systems and Forescout to provide AI-driven security to protect Wi-Fi client and IoT devices
2019-06-27 01:00

Mist Systems, a Juniper Networks company, announced a strategic relationship with Forescout Technologies, the leader in device visibility and control, that enables interoperability between the...

Device Authority and Tech Mahindra deliver IAM and encryption services to IoT customers
2019-06-24 23:00

Device Authority, a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced their strategic partnership with Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital...

Digital.security launches a certification programme for IoT designers
2019-06-24 00:30

digital.security, the leading European certifier for connected object security, has announced the launch of the IoT Qualified as Secured (IQS) programme – the first certification programme for...

41.6 billion IoT devices will be generating 79.4 zettabytes of data in 2025
2019-06-21 04:30

The number of devices connected to the Internet, including the machines, sensors, and cameras that make up the Internet of Things (IoT), continues to grow at a steady pace. A new forecast from IDC...

Providing NB-IoT connectivity to critical infrastructure industries
2019-06-20 23:00

Sequans Communications announced that Puloli, a provider of wide area IoT network connectivity services, has adopted Sequans’ Monarch technology and Pycom’s Monarch-based GPy module to provide...

IoT explodes worldwide, researchers investigate security issues present in the devices real users own
2019-06-20 05:30

About 40 percent of households across the globe now contain at least one IoT device, according to Avast. In North America, that number is almost double, at 66 percent, bringing with it an...

Botnets shift from Windows towards Linux and IoT platforms
2019-06-20 05:00

Botnets in 2018 continued to use DDoS as their primary weapon to attack high-speed networks, according to NSFOCUS. Continuous monitoring and research of botnets discovered significant changes...

Timescale’s on-demand and managed cloud service simplifies working with time-series and IoT data
2019-06-20 02:30

Timescale, the company behind the leading open-source time-series SQL database TimescaleDB, announces the general availability of Timescale Cloud, the on-demand and managed cloud service that...