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How to ensure that the smart home doesn’t jeopardize data privacy?
2022-05-20 04:00

The smart home has been much hyped for what feels a very long-time, but I think it is fair to say that the smart home era is now truly upon us. This status has been almost entirely driven by the rise of the smart speaker - the first truly mass-market smart home device.

New Bluetooth Hack Could Let Attackers Remotely Unlock Smart Locks and Cars
2022-05-19 20:08

A novel Bluetooth relay attack can let cybercriminals more easily than ever remotely unlock and operate cars, break open residential smart locks, and breach secure areas. "An attacker can falsely indicate the proximity of Bluetooth LE devices to one another through the use of a relay attack," U.K.-based cybersecurity company NCC Group said.

BLE vulnerability may be exploited to unlock cars, smart locks, building doors, smartphones
2022-05-17 13:20

A Bluetooth Low Energy vulnerability discovered by NCC Group researchers may be used by attackers to unlock Teslas, residential smart locks, building access systems, mobile phones, laptops, and many other devices. "Many products implement Bluetooth Low Energy-based proximity authentication, where the product unlocks or remains unlocked when a trusted BLE device is determined to be nearby," they explained, and added that the possibility of relay attacks against BLE proximity authentication has been known for years, but existing tools came with detectable levels of latency and were not capable of relaying connections employing link layer encryption.

Smart government agencies are opting for multicloud environments
2022-05-06 03:30

In recent years, there had been more cyberattacks, ransomware events, and an ongoing discovery of potential vulnerabilities within an IT infrastructure. The workforce needed to adapt to working from remote locations, hence why we need to shift to a multicloud solution to have flexibility, agility, and effectiveness to meet mission and business outcomes.

Study: How Amazon uses Echo smart speaker conversations to target ads
2022-04-27 06:52

To understand how Amazon and Skills developers handle audio data, the boffins created an auditing framework to evaluate how voice data gets collected, used, and shared. Technically, the auditing framework involved setting up a custom Raspberry Pi router to record the network endpoints contacted by Amazon Echo and emulating an Amazon Echo by setting up Alexa Voice Service SDK, in order to capture unencrypted network traffic.

Enjoy extra home security with this budget-friendly smart camera
2022-04-20 12:00

Enjoy extra home security with this budget-friendly smart camera We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships. Home security can be expensive and difficult to maintain.

Critical Bugs Could Let Attackers Remotely Hack, Damage APC Smart-UPS Devices
2022-03-09 20:59

Three high-impact security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in APC Smart-UPS devices that could be abused by remote adversaries as a physical weapon to access and control them in an unauthorized manner. TLStorm consists of a trio of critical flaws that can be triggered via unauthenticated network packets without requiring any user interaction, meaning it's a zero-click attack, with two of the issues involving a case of faulty TLS handshake between the UPS and the APC cloud -.

Millions of APC Smart-UPS devices vulnerable to TLStorm
2022-03-09 12:29

If you're managing a smart model from ubiquitous uninterrupted power supply device brand APC, you need to apply updates now - a set of three critical zero-day vulnerabilities are making Smart-UPS devices a possible entry point for network infiltration. The vulnerabilities, dubbed "TLStorm" were found in Schneider Electric's APC Smart-UPS products by security firm Armis, which made the info public on Tuesday.

IoT in smart cities market to reach $132.2 billion by 2026
2022-02-01 04:15

The global IoT in smart cities market size to grow from $130.6 billion in 2021 to $132.2 billion by 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 19.0 % during the forecast period, according to ResearchAndMarkets. The service segment in the IoT in smart cities market to have a higher CAGR. The services segment in the IoT in smart cities market is expected to grow, as major players are focused on offering services.

SAILFISH System to Find State-Inconsistency Bugs in Smart Contracts
2022-01-04 06:32

A group of academics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has demonstrated what it calls a "Scalable technique" to vet smart contracts and mitigate state-inconsistency bugs, discovering 47 zero-day vulnerabilities on the Ethereum blockchain in the process. Smart contracts are programs stored on the blockchain that are automatically executed when predetermined conditions are met based on the encoded terms of the agreement.