Threat actors can use malicious applications in order to eavesdrop on Amazon Alexa and Google Home users, researchers with Security Research Labs have discovered. Rogue applications can also be used to carry out phishing attacks targeting owners of one of these voice assistants. The two attacks developed by the researchers

A new survey by  Zebra Technologies Corporation shows that 61% of companies across the globe are on track to become “intelligent enterprises” based on an index that takes into account their use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data management, intelligent analysis and various other factors. Last year, just under

Most IT security professionals are worried about cyber risk resulting from poorly secured Internet-of-things (IoT) devices, a new nCipher survey found. 68% of respondents are concerned about threat actors changing the functionality of IoT devices, while 54% worry that hackers may remotely take control of IoT devices for malicious purposes.

In the first half of 2019, Kaspersky registered 9 times as many attacks on its Internet of Things (IoT) honeypots as it did in the same period last year, a new report shows. Honeypots are decoy systems used for analyzing cyber threats. The vast majority of attacks involved the infamous

35% of US citizens are worried that threat actors may be able to obtain authorized access to their home network by hacking into smart devices, a new ESET survey found. Despite these concerns, just 20% of respondents try to find out how data is collected, stored and shared by smart

Urgent/11, a range of security vulnerabilities that were initially thought to impact only the VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), actually put many more systems at risk, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned last week. Earlier this year, security researchers with

A “bulletproof” hosting provider used by cybercriminals to host dozens of Internet-of-things (IoT) botnets has been taken down by Dutch police. The company, called KV Solutions BV, was popular among cybercriminals because it refused to take action against its customers, even if they were using the hosting services for criminal

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are know for their poor security, including the presence of default login credentials that make many of these devices laughably easy to hack. While weak default passwords like “admin” and “123456” are notoriously common, a new study by Avira shows that the most common weak

New research by Independent Security Evaluators has uncovered a total of 125 security vulnerabilities in small office/home office (SOHO) routers and network-attached storage devices (NAS). The researchers tested 13 devices in total, from vendors including Asus, Lenovo and Netgear. The report warns that all of the devices under scrutiny “had

A new report by F-Secure warns that cyberattacks on IoT devices are accelerating at an unprecedented rate. The company uses a network of honeypots to attract everyday attacks and discovered more than 2.9 billion attack events in the first half of 2019. Security researchers noted that the honeypots were dominated