U.S. prosecutors in Alaska last week filed charges against a Washington man who is allegedly linked to the Satori IoT botnet that infected more than 280,000 IP addresses in 12 hours upon its debut in late 2017.
The incredible advancements that have turned what were once standalone pieces of medical equipment into IoT devices do enable better care for patients, but at the same time open these devices up to cyberattacks, warned the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), in a new report.
Multiple versions of cardiovascular imaging and information management software from Philips have been found to contain vulnerabilities that could lead to escalated privileges and arbitrary code execution.
The old phrase that it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks may not be as accurate as one might have thought, as the notorious car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek gave a talk this week at Black Hat 2018 about how to properly secure autonomous vehicles from cyberattacks.
Cyberattacks against Finland skyrocketed in the days leading up to the July 16 Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin -- the majority of which were attempts to brute force IoT devices.
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