Tag: IoT Devices

  • CSA: AI in Cybersecurity – The Double-Edged Sword

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/11/27/ai-in-cybersecurity-the-double-edged-sword Source: CSA Title: AI in Cybersecurity – The Double-Edged Sword Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on cybersecurity, emphasizing its dual role in both enhancing defenses and facilitating cybercrime. Key areas of focus include AI in vulnerability assessments, threat detection,…

  • Hacker News: The Weird BLE-Lock – Hacking Cloud Locks

    Source URL: https://nv1t.github.io/blog/the-weired-ble-lock/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Weird BLE-Lock – Hacking Cloud Locks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a security vulnerability found in a Bluetooth-enabled lock’s API, which allows unauthorized access to sensitive user data, including passwords and personal identifiers, through reverse-engineering techniques. This incident highlights the…

  • AWS News Blog: Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-a-new-experience-for-aws-system-manager/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager Feedly Summary: Gain centralized visibility and control over AWS, on-premises, and multicloud compute at scale with the new AWS Systems Manager. Featuring a unified dashboard, one-click agent remediation, Amazon Q Developer integration for natural language queries, and cross-account/Region management…

  • Schneier on Security: IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/iot-devices-in-password-spraying-botnet.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet Feedly Summary: Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed password-guessing attack: “Any threat actor…

  • Hacker News: Why did you write a new RTOS for CHERIoT?

    Source URL: https://cheriot.org/rtos/philosophy/history/2024/10/24/why-new-rtos.html Source: Hacker News Title: Why did you write a new RTOS for CHERIoT? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text elaborates on the design and rationale behind the development of CHERIoT, a new real-time operating system (RTOS) that emphasizes hardware-software co-design and improves security through principles like least…

  • The Register: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite with custom cores for Android phones

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/qualcomm_snapdragon_8_elite/ Source: The Register Title: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite with custom cores for Android phones Feedly Summary: New flagship SoC drops Arm and grows its own legs with Oryon During day one of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, it unveiled its latest flagship SoC, dubbed the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This marks…

  • The Register: Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/telcos_consume_less_than_half/ Source: The Register Title: Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS Feedly Summary: Carriers consume less than half the cloud they committed to use Telecom companies have consumed only 48 percent of the cloud they have committed to, yet seek to secure more, according to a report released…

  • Hacker News: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners

    Source URL: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/10/robot-vacuum-cleaners-hacked-to-spy-on-insult-owners Source: Hacker News Title: Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security breach involving Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuum cleaners, which were hacked to emit obscenities via their onboard speakers. This incident highlights vulnerabilities in IoT…

  • Hacker News: Access your Raspberry Pi without a public IP

    Source URL: https://pinggy.io/blog/access_raspberry_pi_remotely_to_control_iot_devices/ Source: Hacker News Title: Access your Raspberry Pi without a public IP Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This blog post provides a comprehensive guide on securely connecting to Raspberry Pi and other IoT devices remotely without the need for port forwarding. It highlights the importance of using tunneling…

  • The Register: Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/13/schools_nationstate_attacks_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between Feedly Summary: Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite? If we were to draw an infosec Venn diagram, with one circle representing “sensitive info that attackers would want to steal" and the other "limited resources plus difficult-to-secure IT…