Eavesdropper vulnerability impacts hundreds of enterprise apps
Appthority has discovered a significant data exposure vulnerability called Eavesdropper that impacts nearly 700 enterprise apps associated with 85 Twilio developer accounts.
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Time Warner Cable customer data leak
Nearly four million Time Warner Cable (TWC) customer records were left exposed online via a third party data leak.
IoT Cyber Attack Methods And Ways To Defend Them
In a recent cyber threat report, McAfee provided some good intelligence on how cybercriminals use Mirai attacks to infect poorly configured Internet of Things (IoT) devices and turn them into bots used for large scale network attacks.
Improving Data Security with Secure Communications, Applications and APIs for IoT
Security firm Sucuri warned back in June how compromised CCTV devices were used in multiple denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks every day. In the report, nearly 25,000 compromised devices from all over the world were used in various attacks on small businesses.
Cyber Attacks Drive Need for IoT Security Standards
A working group from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) published a report to help guide Internet of Things (IoT) developers and designers with security controls in 13 key areas to improve security in IoT products. The security guidance covers secure development, platform security, data/privacy protection, key management and secure communications, just to name a few.