CIO security lessons: Dark thinking on IoT & exploding enterprise networks

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Oct 28, 2016
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The secret behind the success of Mirai IoT botnets

IoT devices make good botnet material because they are poorly defended and the Mirai source code to create them has been made public. Read More

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CIO security lessons: Dark thinking on IoT & exploding enterprise networks
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CIO security lessons: Dark thinking on IoT & exploding enterprise networks

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How the government can help businesses fight cyber attacks

Companies need help from the U.S. government if they’re going to face adversaries who are using nation-state cyber attack techniques. Read More

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DARPA looking to develop drone destroying, personnel protection system

The three-phase program, called Mobile Force Protection will in the next few years potentially develop a prototype system that could sense an attack, identify the attacker and then use a number of techniques, from communications jamming to capturing mid-flight any attacking drones. DARPA says it will offer $3 million for each phase 1 developer. Read More

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To solve IoT security, look at the big picture, ARM says

The recent DDoS attacks launched from IoT devices demonstrate that IoT spans all parts of IT. That was the message from ARM, the chip design company behind nearly every smartphone and a big chunk of IoT, at its annual TechCon event. Read More

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FBI snags group that allegedly pinched 23,000 or $6.7 million worth of iPhones

The FBI today said it had arrested a group of men in connection with the theft of 23,000 Apple iPhones from a cargo area at the Miami International Airport in April. Read More

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A spam-control issue unique to Australia?

A user of Reddit’s section devoted to systems administration yesterday offered up for inspection an F-bomb-laden phishing email that had eluded his company’s spam filter despite the filter having been set to weed out such cursing. Read More

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DoJ: What does it take to prosecute federal computer crimes?

The need for vigorous criminal enforcement of cybercrime laws will only become more important as networked computers and the criminals who target them grow. That was how the Department of Justice started a blog post this week that defined how it decides whether or not to prosecute a federal computer-related crime. Read More

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