ReFirm provides drag-and-drop automated firmware analysis, which Microsoft hopes will provide security insight for industrial IoT products, where security personnel often struggle to look inside built-in hardware.
Hackers with minimal experience and technical expertise are increasingly targeting industrial networks, driving a new wave of low sophistication OT breaches that researchers tell SC Media is a strong learning opportunity for criminals.
IoT security is bad mostly everywhere, but threats against medical devices bring some of the most worrying potential for damage against health care organizations and their patients.
CheckPoint Research explained how the misuse of a real-time database, notification managers, and storage exposed the personal data of users, leaving corporate resources vulnerable to bad threat actors.
While many businesses struggled to stay in the black amid the pandemic, Target did not. The retail giant grew sales by a whopping $15 billion in 2020. But had the company not begun a technology transformation years prior, the surge in demand combined with the security ramifications could have been a disaster.
A notable rise in firmware vulnerabilities comes at a time when more run-of-the-mill criminals have access. CISA proposed a multi-step approach to tackle the growing threat.
In predictions for 2030, researchers honed in on a list of emerging technologies that could create new wrinkles in the security landscape, including automation, machine learning and AI, additive manufacturing and the prevalence of 5G and widescale IoT.
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