Like any other technology, IoT has its pros and cons. In the last decade, cyber criminals have exploited many attack vectors, several of which can be used to exploit and launch attacks on IoT devices too. IoT attacks have increased substantially over the years, and there has been a jump ...
With the technological shift in the lives of the people from desktop PCs to mobiles, wearables and now to IoT devices, cyber criminals are also focusing on all sorts of threats to compromise them. In one of our introductory articles to IoT we discussed about thedesktop viruses coming our way...
Sensors, manufacturing equipment, and other IoT devices connected to networks in on-site environments such as factories lack the capability for authentication or virus checking, leaving them open to malware attacks that result in stoppages in factory operations. This is a global problem, and existing...
Large attack surface The introduction of IoT devicesincreases the number of entry points and vectors for cyberattacks, as each connection can be exploited or compromised by hackers. What’s more, some IoT devices may interact with other networks, such as cloud services or communication systems, cr...
Advanced Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are preparing the way for a revolutionized future in which much of our daily devices would be interconnected. Such objects should be able to connect and interact with each other and their surroundings. This
The rise in the implementation of IoT devices is contributing to the rise in cyber attacks. That’s according to data from Sussex-based Beaming. According to the business provider, attacks on remote devices increased three-fold during the last quarter of 2017, compared with the same period last...
These techniques will facilitate implementation on devices with low resources, allowing constant status monitoring. This classifier is validated with a dataset of cyberattacks from a real-time IoT infrastructure through a 10K-Fold cross-validation and a subsequent validation stage. The results are ...
Mirai botnet returnsto target IoT devices Older Windows devicesat risk of classic hacks Telnet, UPnP and SMB traffic The largest share of traffic during H1 2019 was led by Telnet with over 760m attack events logged or around 26 percent of traffic. UPnP was the next most frequent with 611m ...
Attacks on IoT Devices IoT devices like industrial sensors are vulnerable to multiple types of cyber threats. These include hackers taking over the device to make it part of a DDoS attack and gain unauthorized access to data being collected by the device. Given their numbers, geographic distribu...
“splitting”the home Wi-Fi network. Just like users can create a “guest” network on their home internet, they can also create a separate network for these “weaker” consumer IoT devices. That way, if an appliance, for example, does get hacked, the more-important devices are still ...