Secure environment (IoT)

Police departments have been surveilling citizens for years with the help of security cameras set up throughout various cities. For hackers, being able to launch man-in-the-middle attacks on the video data is a short step away from replacing real video feeds with pre-recorded footage.

One of the big trends in sphere of health and fitness are fitness trackers such as smartbands. Tracking devices and their mobile applications from three leading vendors were inspected in this report to shed some light on the current state of security and privacy of wearable fitness trackers.

Last week, we had the privilege to participate in and present at the 15th edition of CanSecWest in beautiful Vancouver, BC, along with its famous accompaniment, the ever famous Pwn2Own competition.

This story began when I got a fitness bracelet and installed an application developed especially for wearable devices. The program occasionally connected to my colleague’s wristband. After that I decided to find out how secure my wristband was.

Wait, what? Wasn’t the Stuxnet LNK vulnerability CVE-2010-2568, reported by Sergey Ulasen, patched years ago?

Over the years we have tracked multiple campaigns by an advanced threat actor we call Animal Farm. The group has targeted a wide range of global organizations.

In this post, let’s examine several additional plugins more closely, targeting details around BE2 Siemens exploitation, and some of their unusual coding failures.

Microsoft’s security team begins 2015 with a minimal set of Security Bulletins, MS15-001 through MS15-008.

A cutting-edge IT security conference, was held from 18th -19th December. It was the second round, following its first occurrence in February 2014.

By closely observing more than 60 threat actors responsible for APT attacks worldwide, the team of experts has now compiled a list of the top emerging threats in the APT world. We think these will play an important role in 2015.

A long time has passed since we published our analysis of threats for home network devices. Since then, the situation has significantly changed – alas, not for the better.

Our homes today look more like small offices. We have tons of different devices connected to our network, everything from storage devices and network equipment to wireless network printers.

For the past seven years, a strong threat actor named Darkhotel, also known as Tapaoux, has carried out a number of successful attacks against a wide range of victims from around the world. It employs methods and techniques which go well beyond typical cybercriminal behavior.

More and more people keep talking about the feature of payments via NFC. The problem in this particular case is that somebody reversed the “Tarjeta BIP!” cards and found a means to re-charge them for free.

With the emergence of wearables, the convergence between the virtual and the physical world makes people feel more natural using technology all the time. Unfortunately, the emergence of new technologies also entails new security risks.