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Today, researchers have exposed common weaknesses lurking in the latest smart sex toys that can be exploited by attackers. In examples provided by the researchers, technologies like Bluetooth and inadequately secured remote APIs make these IoT personal devices vulnerable to attacks that go beyond just compromising user privacy.
The uCIFI Alliance announced the public release of the first unified data model to provide interoperability and interchangeability between connected devices to unlock smart cities, reduce cost and guarantee investments' sustainability. The open-source model targets key smart-city applications such as streetlighting, water metering and distribution monitoring, waste management, parking, traffic monitoring, air-quality monitoring, smart buildings, as well as safety and security.
Researchers have demonstrated how to outsmart Nespresso Pro machines that use certain smart cards, hacking them to dispense coffee on-demand. Some of the commercial machines accept Mifare Classic stored-value smart cards, which allow users to load money onto the cards to use in the machines.
Some commercial Nespresso machines in Europe that incorporate a smart card payment system can be manipulated to add unlimited funds to purchase coffee, thanks to reliance on technology that's been known to be insecure for more than a decade. In a coordinated vulnerability disclosure published this week, Polle Vanhoof, a security researcher, describes a vulnerability affecting unspecified Nespresso Pro machines equipped with a smart card reader: the problem? Some rely on outdated Mifare Classic smart cards.
The partnership will see both companies develop innovative smart container solutions for domestic and international freight markets powered by uCloudlink's core patented Cloud SIM technology which accelerates the development of the global container transportation industry. Under the Agreement, uCloudlink will provide CVITC customers with technological platforms such as container sharing operation, transport capacity e-commerce, and truck drop and haul e-operation platforms for domestic and cross-border transportation.
Lenovo introduced the ThinkReality A3 lightweight smart glasses. One of the most advanced and versatile enterprise smart glasses to come to market, the ThinkReality A3 is part of a comprehensive digital solutions offering to deliver intelligent transformation in business and bring smarter technology to more people.
In a recent spate of swatting attacks, perpetrators have hijacked smart gadgets to watch or live stream the bad joke unfolding and engage the responding officers. Swatting originates from prank calls to emergency services.
That fresh assessment comes from NCC Group, which published a report last week outlining "Domestic IoT nightmares." In partnership with the publication Which?, it assessed smart doorbell models made by three vendors Victure, Qihoo and Accfly along with white-box offerings from three additional doorbell makers. Smart doorbells lead the charge when it came to a 33 percent increase in smart home gadgets flooding U.S homes in 2020, according to Hub Entertainment Research.
NETSCOUT announced the extension of its Smart Perimeter Protection to AWS. The combination of NETSCOUT's Cyber Investigator and CyberStream software with new AWS packet access services helps contain costs and achieve better efficiencies in mitigating novel security threats as enterprises move applications to the cloud. As the threat surface expands, the solution uses packet data and powerful cyber analytics to get to the root cause of cybersecurity issues quickly.
HD-PLC Alliance has started standardization work that will allow the use of enhanced network security functions, with the aim of using High-Definition Power Line Communication technology in the fields of smart grids and distributed power management. The IEEE Standards Association established a new project called IEEE P1901b in September this year to create specifications for this purpose, and held the first working group meeting this month.