Make Your Home Smart and Secure
“Smart but insecure” sounds like you’re talking about a high achiever who needs therapy. Which you could …
Browsing: Connected Devices
Software Testing in the IoT Era: How QA Will Evolve in a Connected World
The Internet of Things (IoT) era has arrived. As of 2017, there were 8.4 billion connected devices (that’s more than the world’s …
Home Is Where The Heart, of Technology, Is
In an effort to make IoT devices safer, last year, the US Senate introduced the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of …
Bringing It All Back Home: Why You Should Apply Enterprise Network Security Policies to Your Smart Home
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month, and as the relevance of cybersecurity at both home and work continues to explode, …
Not even Congress can keep up with IoT cybersecurity challenges, and here’s why
Moderator Mark Harris of The Economist leads a discussion about IoT security with Finite State CEO Matt Wyckhouse, U.S. …
What Technology Leaders Have to Say About IoT
It seems like everybody is talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) — the good, the bad, and the alarming — along with the lines of, …
4 New Smart Office Security Risks and How to Mitigate Them
Internet of Things (IoT) devices will bring a bevy of benefits to businesses, including productivity, energy savings, efficiency, safety …
IoT Vulnerabilities Mean Consumers Must Protect Their Own Smart Home Devices
IoT smart home devices constitute a highly profitable market. According to research firm IDC, consumer IoT spending is set to reach $62 …
Stories From the Edge of IoT Security: Threat Demos From Black Hat and DEF CON
As the annual security week in Las Vegas drew to a close, cybersecurity professionals left Black Hat 2018 and DEF CON 26 armed with …
How to Outsmart the Smart City
Today’s digital world has created new ways to keep us all informed and safe while automating our daily lives. Our phones send us alerts …
Research Highlights the Cyber Risk to Connected Cars
Earlier this year, I explored a fascinating new paper from the University of Michigan that outlines some of the main cybersecurity …
DNS Rebinding Is Back and Exposing Half a Billion IoT Devices to Attack
It’s been a relatively quiet year when it comes to cyber security attacks. While there have been plenty of small attacks, including ones …
Top Three Considerations in Securing an IoT Infrastructure Framework
We closed the previous article about choosing a framework for IoT infrastructure with some indications of some of the requisite security …
How Can We Make Smart Cities Even Smarter? Start With Security Intelligence
People from all corners of the globe are flocking to cities: Sixty-eight percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas by …
The Cybercrime Landscape Is Evolving — Will Your Mobile Threat Defense Strategy Keep Up?
As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, organizations must adapt their security strategies to account for the enlarged threat …
Connect the Dots: IoT Security Risks in an Increasingly Connected World
Nowadays, there is a lot of noise about the Internet of Things (IoT), as the technology has finally emerged into mainstream public view. …
#Belfast2018: The Challenges of Securing Connected Devices, and How to Do It
Speaking at CSIT’s eighth Annual World Cyber Security Summit in Belfast Professor Máire O’Neill, CSIT principal investigator & …
Hospitals Exposed by Connected Devices
At any one time the world’s connected hospitals could be running as many as 80,000 exposed devices, putting hospital operations, data …
The Cybersecurity Concerns of Driverless Cars
There is seemingly no shortage of issues still to resolve before autonomous vehicles become a mainstream presence on our roads, but one of …
Hacker Ends Malware Mission After Bricking 10 Million Connected Devices
My father taught me this about running a successful business: Make your people your …
How Israel Became the Land of Connected Car Research and Development
Israel is becoming a major center for connected car research. Fueled by government-backed military research, test labs established by …
#ISSE17: Connected Devices Legal Framework Proposed by EC
A new European Commission proposal will see cybersecurity certifications issued for devices under a single and central European framework …
Securing Medical Devices in the Age of the IoT
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cautioned the health care industry to be wary about networked medical devices containing …
Is My Fitness Band Protected? An Exercise in IoT Security
I recently bought a fitness band to track my daily workouts and quickly got hooked. The invaluable insights it provided through data …
Increased Awareness Is the Best Cure for Health Care Security Risks
The health care market is quite heterogeneous, and as a result, each organization has a unique set of cybsersecurity needs and characteristics. The industry includes hospitals of all sizes, local…
The IoT Needs a Paradigm Shift from Security to Safety of Connected Devices
Building IoT ventures from scratch by prototyping hardware devices and their backend systems as well as working for a large company that tries to sell IoT devices itself, we learned…
Can White Hats Protect Us From the Internet of Things?
Anyone who writes about the Internet of Things has a guilty secret: a shameless repository of glee reserved for reports of hacked hardware, the wearer the better. Read full news…
90% of Consumers Think Security Should be Built into Connected Devices
New global IoT security survey by Irdeto finds that awareness of cyberattacks targeting smart devices increases with age IoT security is top-of-mind for consumers across the globe, according to new…
11 Hackable Medical Devices Posing Real Threats
Within the last year, you’ve likely read a few posts about hackable pacemakers and insulin pumps detailing scary and real threats to common medical devices. In addition to the known…
IoT Security Risks: Real Examples
Every new technology comes with great benefits, but of course they all have their risks. We analyzed three types of IoT applications that might be vulnerable to security threats: Read…