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Surveillance, take-downs and blackouts: Examples of IoT security hacks

Following BlackHat 2018, there has been more discussion around IoT security. During the conference, Ijay Palansky, a partner at law firm Armstrong Teasdale, which represented plaintiffs in the 2015 hacking of a Jeep in transit, warned there was a law of understanding of IoT...

Libelium patches security flaws in IoT gateway to ward off Mirai-style attacks

IoT gateway provider Libelium's Meshlium Manager System had web vulnerabilities, which were open to Mirai-style botnet attacks. Libelium said it has corrected the faults. The Meshlium Manager System receives data from sensors and forwards the information directly to the Internet.  The gateway is used for...

Does machine learning for cybersecurity live up to the hype?

Trying to keep intruders out of your network is like trying to keep vermin out of a house in a bad neighborhood. The rodents and insects never stop trying to get in, and the best you can do is slow them down, minimize the...

British defence firm Qinetiq warns of security risks of mixing 5G and IoT

British defence technology company Qinetiq, heavily involved in the UK 5G testbed project in Worcestershire, has warned next-generation 5G wireless networks will open businesses up to cyber threats. The GSMA predicts as many as 1.4 billion 5G connections will be live by 2025, with revenue...

IBM opens four new X-Force Red hacking facilities to take fight to IoT cyber criminals

IBM has announced a new cybersecurity testing facility for its X-Force Red ethical hacking team at its campus in Austin, Texas, alongside three further testing sites, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US, Hursley, England, in the UK, and Melbourne, in Australia. The network of facilities,...

New IoT security standard launching in September

IoT security is top-of-mind for governments, enterprises Speaking during a Fortinet event in Singapore last week, the U.K.-based Centre for Strategic Cyber Space and Security Science (CSCSS) announced that it is planning to launch a new IoT security standard in September 2018. The organisation's Asia-Pacific Executive...

3 ways to improve commercial building security and cost efficiencies

Cloud-based building management systems, IoT devices, and remote mobile connectivity are rapidly transforming today?s facilities and security management ecosystem in the commercial real estate sector saving valuable time in the event of an emergency by placing ?human sensors? in the field. For property owners...

Tesla and DeepMind among 160 AI firms to sign pledge against robot killers

More than 160 companies and organisations from 36 countries working with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including the founders of Tesla and Google DeepMind, have signed a pledge not to develop, make, sell or use lethal autonomous weapons. The signing is the first of its kind,...

The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their applications and activity

New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the second of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...

Countering IoT cybersecurity risks: Strategies for building and plant owners

IoT is key to building efficiency, but cybersecurity has to be addressed While the buildings we work and live in are getting better, smarter, and more connected as we speak, they are also becoming exponentially more vulnerable to cyber attacks, which means cybersecurity measures are...

AT&T among 15 operators to commit to GSMA’s IoT security guidelines

Mobile operators from every region have backed the GSMA’s new IoT security guidelines. AT&T is the only US operator so far to have committed to the GSMA measures; it is joined by the leading operator brands in Europe and China. The GSMA guidelines make 85...

Microsoft’s Azure IoT Edge gets official release, security updates, certified modules

Microsoft has made its Azure IoT Edge service ‘generally available’, and added new categories including device management and security to its Azure IoT Edge catalogue.  It has also made Azure IoT Edge available on open source developer platform GitHub, which Microsoft acquired for $7.5 billion last...

Blockchain for the supply chain: great in theory, hard in practice, says food industry

The practicalities of implementing decentralised blockchain governance, and the fear it raises within the supply chain about a lack of control, remain major stumbling blocks for the technology, said a panel from the food industry at Blockchain Expo in Amsterdam. The distributed ledger technology remains...

OPC group responds to Kaspersky claims, Rockwell intros OPC UA support

The OPC Foundation has said security vulnerabilities found by Kaspersky Labs in its OPC-UA framework, designed for secure data transfer between clients and servers in industrial systems, were in fact discovered in outdated versions of the OPC UA protocol. Reviewing the Kaspersky Labs findings, from...

‘5G suits the mission-critical world,’ says IHS Markit

Incoming 5G technologies will put industrial applications front and centre, and enable new functionalities in critical communications, according to IHS Markit. The research house told Enterprise IoT Insights at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin last week 5G will impact industrial space in the way...

Time to treat GDPR as the world’s first global privacy law (Reader Forum)

While personal data breaches keep cyber security in the headlines, the topic of privacy lacks the drama of a high-profile hack. That is a shame, since privacy and cyber security are closely related. Privacy is usually defined as the right to be left alone,...

Enterprises facing “nightmare” with IoT security and data privacy, says IEEE

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has warned enterprises all over the world are face a “nightmare” with the security of everyday devices connecting to their networks. Manufacturers of new ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices are not thinking about security by design,...

Nokia, Huawei and Motorola Solutions tout next-generation public safety systems

Vendors Nokia, Huawei and Motorola Solutions variously talked up next-generation command centres at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin this week. The trio offered multi-media public safety packages that variously make use of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, and seek...

GDPR threatens public safety companies, as facial recognition tech fails UK police

Europe’s incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could take public safety companies by surprise, and even force them to shut down. This was the view, as technology companies at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin showed facial recognition technology (FRT) and biometric solutions for...

Three enterprise IoT verticals most at risk from Europe’s GDPR and ePrivacy rules

Healthcare, smart cities and connected vehicles will be the three enterprise IoT ‘verticals’ most impacted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force next week. Analysts suggest these market sectors, outside of the consumer internet of things (IoT) market, will be under...

The IIoT interview: “It’s a huge breakthrough for factories,” says Cisco

Cisco appears to have found its rhythm in the enterprise IoT space by integrating communications technologies and data streams in its Kinetic platform for smart factories and smart cities. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Bryan Tantzen, in charge of its manufacturing IoT business,...

IIoT security is hopeful at best, reckons the Hannover consensus

Completely securing the industrial ‘internet of things’ (IIoT) is hopeful at best, according to companies and analysts at Hannover Messe last week. The Germany-based industrial fair was focused on connecting factories and supply chains; the process to secure new devices and networks was the principle...

Microsoft intros triple lock to secure IoT devices at the network edge

Microsoft has announced a new platform to secure ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices. Dubbed Azure Sphere, it layers in three levels of enhanced IoT security, in its chip, operating system (OS) and cloud. Most significantly, Microsoft has introduced a new “cross-over class” of chip, or...

Europe agrees major blockchain partnership and DNA data-sharing deal

The public sector in Europe will come to depend on blockchain technology. This was the claim by the European Commission (EC) as it announced major cross-border deals on blockchain and digital healthcare to address challenges of fragmentation and interoperability, accelerate the launch of new...