IoT

  • Physical Security Is Critical For Protecting Your Data

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    While many people focus on the logical security around their data, physical security gets a lot less attention. Locking down the electronic components of physical security is an area that’s forgotten once it’s installed. Tony Vizza, from IT security consultant Sententia, says there’s a huge gap between what we should be doing with our physical…

  • Get Ready For Persirai: Like Mirai But Worse

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    Last September, a bunch of major websites were rendered 404 when the Mirai botnet surfaced. By attacking hundreds of thousands of unsecured IoT devices Mirai was able to attack DNS provider Dyn resulting in hundreds of online services dropping like flies. Persirai borrows some code from Mirai but “improves” upon it.