In-brief: The Security Ledger’s Paul Roberts will be at the RSA Conference in San Francisco next week. You can see him at one of three panel discussions, or interviewing security luminaries on RSA Conference TV.
Conferences
300 Billion Passwords? Internet of Things Growth poses Unprecedented Threat by 2020
In-brief: Password management is already a big challenge for consumers and businesses. That problem is poised to get much (much) worse, as the population of The Internet of Things explodes, a new survey finds.
At Industrial Control Security Con: Will hack IoT for Beer
In-brief: Cisco’s Marc Blackmer reports from the S4 Conference in Miami – one of the top gatherings of industrial control system security experts. Among the attractions this year: Justine Bone of the firm Medsec, the psychology of malicious insiders and a hackable “kegerator.”
Flaw Lets Hackers Own Samsung Smartcams With Bogus Firmware
In-brief: a flaw in Samsung’s Smartcam product could allow remote attackers to take control of the devices. The news comes two years after Samsung took steps to patch other flaws in its Internet connected cameras.
Second Ukraine Power Outage Linked to Russian Hackers
In-brief: A cyber attack in December was responsible for a power outage in Ukraine – almost a year to the day after a similar attack in 2015, new research shows.
