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Amazon Sidewalk expands beyond homes to build a commercial Internet of Things

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Amazon Sidewalk is a long-range, low-power IoT network that uses Bluetooth and LoRa radios, which are built into Echo and Ring devices, to connect devices with Amazon’s cloud when they’re beyond the reach of traditional home networks. The pitch was meant to leverage the connected gadgets in peoples’ homes to keep things like Tile trackers and outdoor smart lights online, no matter where they might be. But relying on homes that opt in creates some obvious coverage gaps in rural areas, industrial regions and other places where the sidewalk ends.

Now, Amazon is introducing a new gadget designed to help fill those gaps. Dubbed the Amazon Sidewalk Bridge Pro by Ring and intended for farms, factories and other nonresidential settings, the Bridge Pro is a dedicated device housing the radios needed to relay Sidewalk’s signals to the cloud. Rather than targeting consumers, who can already turn Sidewalk on via their Echo smart speakers and Ring cameras, Amazon is seeking to partner with industries and organizations beyond the reach of the current network.


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Meta Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Include Data Scraping

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Meta, recently rebranded from Facebook, today announced the expansion of its bug-bounty and data-bounty programs to reward valid reports of so-called scraping bugs and scraped databases with monetary compensation and matched charity donations, respectively.

The move is meant to address the risk of attack activity designed to scrape public and private data, which poses a threat to all kinds of websites and services. Scrapers such as malicious apps, websites, and scripts are constantly being updated to evade detection; the idea here is to make the process harder and more expensive for attackers, explained Dan Gurfinkel, security engineering manager, in a blog post.

The programs will start as a private bounty track for Meta’s Gold+ HackerPlus researchers. The company will reward reports of scraping methods, even if the targeted data is public, he noted. Its goal is to find bugs that allow attackers to bypass scraping limitations and access data at a larger scale than a product intended.

“Our goal is to quickly identify and counter scenarios that might make scraping less costly for malicious actors to execute,” he wrote. To the best of the company’s knowledge, this is the industry’s first data-scraping bug-bounty program.

Lack of proper rate limiting is currently included in the program’s scope, Gurfinkel continued, but its terms don’t allow hackers to automate data access and collection. Meta is encouraging research into logic bypass issues that could enable attackers to access information through untended mechanisms, even if proper rate limits are in place.

Starting Dec. 15, Meta’s bug-bounty program will reward reports of unprotected or openly public databases containing at least 100,000 unique Facebook user records with personally identifiable information (PII) or sensitive data, such as email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, or religious or political affiliations.

“The reported dataset must be unique and not previously known or reported to Meta,” Gurfinkel wrote. “We aim to learn from this effort so we can expand the scope to smaller datasets over time.”

If it’s confirmed that PII was scraped and is available on a website outside Meta, the company says it will “work to…

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Meta expands ‘Facebook Protect’ security programme to India

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Meta has announced that it is expanding ‘Facebook Protect’, its security programme for people that are more likely to be targeted by malicious hackers, to more countries including India –covering human rights defenders, journalists and government officials.

‘Facebook Protect’ helps these people adopt stronger account security protections, like two-factor authentication, and monitors for potential hacking threats.

The company first tested ‘Facebook Protect’ in 2018 and expanded it ahead of the 2020 US elections.

“We began our global expansion in September of this year. Since then, more than 1.5 million accounts have enabled Facebook Protect, and of those, nearly 950K accounts newly enrolled in two-factor authentication,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy at Meta, said in a statement late on Thursday.

“We are on track to expand the programme to more than 50 countries by the end of the year, including the United States, India, and Portugal,” he informed.

No action is required unless you get a notification on Facebook that you are eligible to enroll.

“With Facebook Protect, we worked to make enrollment and use of two-factor authentication as frictionless as possible for these groups of people by providing better user experience and support,” the company said.

Meta also announced that with more than 50 non-governmental organisation partners around the world, it is supporting UK Revenge Porn Helpline’s launch of StopNCII.org to help stop the non-consensual sharing of intimate images (NCII) on the internet.

StopNCII.org uses technology that hashes images and videos directly on a person’s device, so those images or videos never have to leave a person’s possession.

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Published on: Friday, December 03, 2021, 05:27 PM IST

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Fortinet expands security services offerings to protect digital infrastructures

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FortiTrust provides security services that follow the user across an organisation’s entire security platform, enabling organisations to easily manage and secure across all form factors. Other benefits of the new offering include: 

FortiTrust adds to Fortinet’s existing FortiCare and FortiGuard security services portfolio. FortiCare services are available for all Fortinet Security Fabric products. FortiCare offers three levels of services, including Essential, Premium and Elite, all providing 24×7 technical support and timely issue resolution. FortiCare also offers several product and account-based services options to address the unique needs of any organisation. Through FortiCare, organisations have access to Fortinet experts to help accelerate technology implementation, provide reliable assistance through advanced support, and offer proactive care to maximise security and performance of Fortinet deployments.

FortiGuard Security Services provide organisations with different services tied to their Fortinet devices, enabling coordinated and consistent real-time defense for the latest cyber attacks. FortiGuard Security Services are tuned around different customer segments to include individual services for Enterprises, bundles for commercial, and packages for SMBs. Leveraging industry-leading threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs, FortiGuard Security Services offer a suite of market-leading, AI-enabled security capabilities that continuously assess risks and automatically adjust protection across the Fortinet Security Fabric.

The proliferation of new devices and edges along with investments in digital innovations continue to expand the digital attack surface. Many organisations are challenged with protecting across their entire infrastructure as the threat landscape has become much more sophisticated and harder to manage with isolated point products and disparate services. This complexity is compounded with different pricing structures for services and multiple licensing models ranging from device-based, hardware-based and user-based that have remained siloed across form factors. 

Expanding on the Fortinet Security Fabric’s ability to protect…

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