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The need for internet security on your devices
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With networking pros unable to trust the security of Internet of Things devices, Cisco says they should focus on implementing network-based security protections that limit the blast radius of IoT security breaches.
This week Cisco unveiled a new package named IoT Threat Defense at the company’s IoT World Forum in London.
IoT Threat Defense combines seven separate offerings, including network-segmentation rule creator TrustSec, network behavior analytics platform Stealthwatch and device-visibility offering named Cisco Identity Service Engine.
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Bot-herding software called Persirai, which incorporates pieces of the Mirai botnet code, can commandeer significant chunks of a known 150,000 IP cameras that are vulnerable to Mirai and use them to fire off distributed denial-of-service attacks.
The Persirai botnet has attacked at least four targets, starting in a predictable pattern, according to researchers at Trend Micro.
Persirai takes advantage of a known vulnerability in the cameras to infect them, has them download malware from a command and control server, and then puts them to work either infecting other vulnerable cameras or launching DDoS attacks. “Based on the researchers’ observation, once the victim’s IP Camera received C&C commands, which occurs every 24 hours at 12:00 p.m. UTC, the DDoS attacks start,” the researchers say.
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Digital Trends |
Are Android devices really easier to hack? We asked the experts
Digital Trends I do think we have a bit of a perception problem, but it's very different from actual user risk,” Adrian Ludwig, director of Android Security, told Digital Trends in a recent interview. “The cryptographic work that we've been doing, the sandboxing that … |