In between dreams, you hear the alarm on your mobile phone ring. You open your eyes and turn it off from your smartwatch. Your Smart TV welcomes you with the daily news and you look for the weather forecast: it is a freezing winter’s morning. Your car is waiting outside, just like any other day, … More ESET Trends for 2017: Holding security ransom
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of webcams? After the Dyn DDoS last month, this is a question on the minds of a lot of security people. Someone recently asked me if we shouldn’t adopt a new name for the Internet of Things (IoT) because the existing term is too vague. I responded … More Secure your router: How to help prevent the next internet takedown
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been referred to by so many different names in the past year. The Internet of Terror, the Internet of Trash and a few other catchy monikers to account for the large amount of vulnerabilities present in new devices that are increasingly present in many homes. Things like smart thermostats, … More The Hive Mind: When IoT devices go rogue
2016 is already being dubbed “The Year of Ransomware”, but part of my job is to look beyond the present, and I’m concerned that a future headline will read: “The Year of Jackware.” What is jackware? I define jackware as malicious software that seeks to take control of a device, the primary purpose of which … More Jackware: When connected cars meet ransomware
Disconnected from the internet and without audio speakers and microphones, air-gapped computers may be the safest option for protecting an organization against security breaches, but as we know from the Stuxnet outbreak, they aren’t foolproof – a fact that researchers in Israel set out to explore. Scientists at the Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University … More ‘Fansmitter’ malware can extract data from air-gapped computers
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