CIA contractors fired for stealing from hacked IoT snack machines
Some things really, really shouldn’t be turned into IoT devices – in...
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Beer + bitter former field engineer = hacked smart water meters
The story of Adam Flanagan, who’s been jailed for hacking, is a reminder t...
NSA Advocates Data Sharing Framework
Fighting attackers needs a new approach that leverages a public-private data sha...
Coming soon (maybe) to toyshops – AI doll that can read kids’ emotions
Researchers have built a doll with an AI chip and a camera that can interpret a ...
Internet-Enabled Drill Demonstrates IoT Security Done Right
Researchers find flaws in an internet-connected drill, but say minimal, hard-to-...
Stack Clash Linux vulnerability: you need to patch now
If you’re running Linux-based IoT devices, remember that attackers are par...
IoT Malware Activity Already More Than Doubled 2016 Numbers
The number of new malware samples in the wild this year targeting connected inte...
Post-WannaCry, 5.5 Million Devices Still Expose SMB Port
In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers...
News in brief: man jailed for hacking celebrity chef; US could add domestic flights to laptop ban; flaws found in ‘security’ cameras
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
InfoSec 2017: ‘One disaster away from governments doing something’ on IoT
IoT is ‘eating the world’, warned Bruce Schneier at InfoSec 2017 ...