Securing Smart Cities from the Ground Up
Smart technology continues to change how people live and interact with the cities around them. While the full value of a connected city evolves – one that leverages innovations powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning – cybersecurity stands as one of its greatest challenges. The Smart City Conundrum While the promise of Smart Cities…
SATCOM Cybersecurity Alert Issued as Authorities Probe Possible Russian Attack
CISA and the FBI have made a series of recommendations to help SATCOM network providers and customers strengthen cybersecurity. Network providers have been advised to implement additional monitoring capabilities for anomalous traffic related to SATCOM equipment. They have also been advised to read a recent threat assessment report from the Office of the Director of…
Enterprise IoT Security Firm Phosphorus Raises $38 Million
Phosphorus was founded in 2017 by Chris Rouland (CEO), Earle Ady (CTO), and Rebecca Rouland (CFO). Chris Rouland is no newcomer to start-ups., having previously founded Bastille and Endgame. He also stood up the X-Force division at IBM where he was CTO and Distinguished Engineer. Phosphorus was born from an epiphany. In 2016 Rouland read…
IoT’s Importance is Growing Rapidly, But Its Security Is Still Weak
The weakest link in most digital networks is the person sitting in front of the screen – the defining feature of the Internet of People (IoP). Because that’s where, through cunning and manipulative tactics, unsuspecting recipients can be tricked into opening toxic links. Little do they know, however, they’ve unwittingly opened the gates to digital…
New Flaws Expose EVlink Electric Vehicle Charging Stations to Remote Hacking
Schneider announced the availability of patches on December 14, when it urged customers to immediately apply patches or mitigations. The flaws have been found to impact EVlink City (EVC1S22P4 and EVC1S7P4), Parking (EVW2, EVF2 and EVP2PE) and Smart Wallbox (EVB1A) devices, as well as some products that have reached end of life. The vendor has…
Afero Raises $50 Million for Its Secure IoT Platform
The new investment came from Crosspoint Capital Partners. Home Depot also participated, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Afero aims to secure device connectivity from the manufacturing process to consumer use, offering a platform that supports all types of smart home devices and provides secure cloud communication with Afero’s…
Nearly 100 TCP/IP Stack Vulnerabilities Found During 18-Month Research Project
The research, named Project Memoria, was conducted by enterprise device security firm Forescout in collaboration with others. It resulted in the discovery of the vulnerabilities tracked as Ripple20, AMNESIA:33, NUMBER:JACK, NAME:WRECK, INFRA:HALT, and NUCLEUS:13. TCP/IP stacks are leveraged by a wide range of devices for communication, including medical products, industrial control systems (ICS), printers, and…
Many Healthcare, OT Systems Exposed to Attacks by NUCLEUS:13 Vulnerabilities
Collectively referred to as NUCLEUS:13, the issues likely affect safety-critical devices, such as anesthesia machines, patient monitors and other types of devices used in healthcare. Other types of operational technology (OT) systems are also impacted. The most important of the newly identified issues is CVE-2021-31886 (CVSS score of 9.8), a stack-based buffer overflow that exists…
Device Exploits Earn Hackers Over $1 Million at Pwn2Own Austin 2021
Pwn2Own Austin has focused on hacking devices and ZDI described it as the largest Pwn2Own to date. White hat hackers earned $362,500 on the first day of the event, $415,000 on the second day, $238,750 on the third day, and $65,000? on the fourth day. Sixty-one bugs were disclosed at the contest — exploits typically…
LG to Acquire Vehicle Cybersecurity Firm Cybellum
LG said it will initially acquire a 64-percent stake in Cybellum for $140 million and it will acquire the remaining shares in the near future — if the valuation does not change, the remaining shares will be worth nearly $80 million. The Korean tech giant also plans on investing $20 million in the cybersecurity firm…
