Tag: trends

Symantec: Common Security Ailments In Smart Home Technology

  In-brief: A Symantec survey of smart home products found a raft of common security mistakes, from weak (or missing) authentication to exploitable software vulnerabilities. 

Cyber Lemons: Lawsuit alleges Hackable Cars Pose Risks to Consumers

  In-brief: A lawsuit filed in California charges U.S. automakers with endangering their customers by failing to protect ‘connected vehicle’ features from cyber attack. 

The Enterprise IT Security Continuum

In-brief: Cisco executive Marc Blackmer argues that advanced threats and the coming Internet of Things will put more pressure on IT organizations to fight cyber threats along a continuum that includes blocking, detection and remediation. 

Twitter Accounts to follow for IoT and Security

Twitter is a great place to keep tabs on what leading security researchers, academics, policy makers and luminaries are up to. That’s no different for security and Internet of Things, where scores – even hundreds – of world-class researchers and thought leaders share their latest work, exchange ideas, opine and post pictures of their cats. Here are a few of the most rewarding security and Internet of Things accounts that we follow here at The Security Ledger. [soliloquy id=”56140″]

Opinion: Fortifying the Internet of Things | CSM Passcode

In-brief: Three noted academics and experts on homeland security argue for changes in the way that Internet of Things devices are deployed, and more research on the risks such devices pose to companies and individuals.