The Reaper Botnet Has Already Infected a Million Networks THE MIRAI BOTNET, a collection of hijacked gadgets whose cyberattack made much of the internet inaccessible in parts of the US and beyond a year ago, previewed a dreary future of zombie connected-device armies...
Anatomical Devices Forebodes Cyber Hostility “Medical care is the next cyber warfare.” Janine Medina, a technologist, stated Thursday at a panel on the cybersecurity issues posed by the rampant proliferation of Internet-connected medical and anatomical-embedded...
Smart locks, not so smart: Customers stranded after botched firmware update Consumers have taken to social media in their droves to complain about smart locks which became unresponsive following a flawed firmware update. Over the past week, LockState customers have...
Two U.S. lawmakers think the government has a new cybersecurity problem: The Internet of Things When hackers took aim at the internet’s backbone last year, impeding access to websites like Twitter and Spotify, they did so by weaponizing the Internet of Things — a...
“Devil’s Ivy” Vulnerability Could Hit Millions of IoT Devices The security woes of the internet of things stem from more than just connecting a bunch of cheap gadgets to a cruel and hacker-infested internet. Often dozens of different vendors run the...
