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The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) released its Guidelines for Securing the IoT, which covers the entire IoT supply chain – hardware, software and services. Supply chains are currently facing a broad range of threats, from physical thr… Continue reading Guide: Security measures for IoT product development
McAfee released a report examining cybercriminal activity related to malware and the evolution of cyber threats in Q2 2020. During this period, there was an average of 419 new threats per minute as overall new malware samples grew by 11.5%. A significa… Continue reading In Q2 2020, there was an average of 419 new threats per minute
The global number of industrial IoT connections will increase from 17.7 billion in 2020 to 36.8 billion in 2025, representing an overall growth rate of 107%, Juniper Research found. The research identified smart manufacturing as a key growth sector of … Continue reading Global number of industrial IoT connections to reach 36.8 billion by 2025
These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find connected devices that do not come with companion smartphone applications. In fact, it’s very common for contemporary devices to offload most (if not all) of its display to the user handset. Smartphones and the… Continue reading How smartphones became IoT’s best friend and worst enemy
There’s a growing use of ransomware, encrypted threats and attacks among cybercriminals leveraging non-standard ports, while overall malware volume declined for the third consecutive quarter, SonicWall reveals. “For most of us, 2020 has bee… Continue reading Ryuk ransomware behind one third of all ransomware attacks in 2020
Connected devices are becoming more ingrained in our daily lives and the burgeoning IoT market is expected to grow to 41.6 billion devices by 2025. As a result of this rapid growth and adoption at the consumer and commercial level, hackers are infiltra… Continue reading What the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means for the future of connected devices
Healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) have been busy increasing their network and systems security in the last year, though there is still much room for improvement, according to Forescout researchers. This is the good news: the percentage of device… Continue reading Healthcare network security is slowly improving
If Q2 2020 surprised us with an unusually high number of DDoS attacks for this period, the Q3 figures point to a normalization. Judging by the number of unique targets, in comparison with last quarter, cybercriminals were more attracted by European, and less by the Asian countries. Continue reading DDoS attacks in Q3 2020
Attacks on IoT devices continue to rise at an alarming rate due to poor security protections and cybercriminals use of automated tools to exploit these vulnerabilities, according to Nokia. IoT devices most infected The report found that internet-connec… Continue reading Attacks on IoT devices continue to escalate
The worlds of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) are colliding. In July 2019, Automation.com cited a survey finding where 82% of respondents told Forrester and Nozomi Networks that their organizations were in the early stages o… Continue reading How Containers Support the IT-OT Convergence