With an eye on a future where bionic devices are commonplace as part of human augmentation, Kaspersky has designed a cybersecurity policy to mitigate security risks that augmentation technology can pose to corporate IT networks. “Human augmentation is a burgeoning area of technology which in fact remains underexplored. That’s why making a first step towards … Read more
Government agencies from the Five Eyes countries have released joint guidance for device manufacturers to secure their edge products against increasingly frequent malicious attacks. Sitting at the edge of a network, always connected to the internet, and acting as entry points for data between the network and the web, edge devices may include firewalls, routers, … Read more
Healthcare and life sciences facilities have seen an increase in cyberattacks with the growth of connected IoT medical devices. To help prevent unauthorised access of medical devices, Asimily and Extreme Networks team up to help healthcare institutions prevent unauthorised access of IoT-based medical devices. Asimily is a provider of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) risk … Read more
QNAP on Jan. 23 issued patches for six bugs in the open-source Rsync software that helps manage its popular network-attached storage (NAS) devices that are primarily used for backup and disaster recovery. In its advisory, QNAP said the bugs affect HBS 3 Hybrid Backup Sync 25.1.x NAS devices, and recommended that customers update those systems … Read more
The threat intelligence team from Forescout’s Vedere Labs yesterday revealed 56 security flaws affecting OT devices from 10 companies, including Bently Nevada, Emerson, Honeywell, JTEKT, Motorola, Omron, Phoenix Contact, Siemens, and Yokogawa. Collectively called “OT:ICEFALL”, all 56 vulnerabilities are divided into four main categories: insecure engineering protocols, weak cryptography or broken authentication schemes, insecure firmware … Read more