Nest recommended the owners of its security cameras to use enhanced authentication to avoid being hacked as happened with a family living in the US. Over the weekend, a family living in California was terrified with a hoax nuclear missile attack. The couple explained to the local media that hackers compromised their Nest security camera and used...
Experts from security firm Pen Test Partners reported that tens of thousands of hot tubs are currently vulnerable to cyber attacks. Security experts at Pen Test Partners have discovered thousands of connected hot tubs vulnerable to remote cyber attacks....
A vulnerability in the Guardzilla home video surveillance system could be exploited by users to watch Guardzilla footage of other users. The Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System is an indoor video surveillance solution. The flaw was discovered...
Security researchers discovered some flaws in the Twinkly IoT lights that could be exploited display custom lighting effects and to remotely turn off them. Security researchers from MWR InfoSecurity have discovered some flaws in the Twinkly IoT lights...
Some models of Huawei routers are affected by a flaw that could be exploited by attackers to determine whether the devices have default credentials or not. Ankit Anubhav, a principal researcher at NewSky Security, discovered a vulnerability in some...
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2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019 Insights from VDOO’s leadership 2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT) - massive...
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Security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. According to a study conducted by experts from Trend Micro and the Polytechnic University...
Over 270,000 connected devices run vulnerable implementations of UPnP, threat actors are attempting to recruit them in a multi-purpose botnet. In April, Akamai reported that threat actors compromised 65,000 home routers by exploiting vulnerabilities...