The dizzying speeds of development in today’s technologies create more opportunities for cybercriminals than ever before. Each year we are seeing more and more challenges in the fight against cybercrime. With so many potential targets in the IT environment: on-premise networks, cloud, mobile, and IoT devices, there are many areas that could provide a vulnerability for a cybercriminal to take advantage of.
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IoT devices are everywhere and some businesses are only just starting to realise the security implications of so many unmanaged items on their network. The number of IoT devices is forecast to increase five fold to 75 billion devices by 2025. Couple the roll out of cellular IoT and faster 5G networks with vulnerable IoT devices, and you could be gifting hackers the ability to utilise compromised devices to launch DDoS attacks and/or deploy malware.
more →In Part 1 of this blog post we discussed one of 2017’s biggest security worries: the emerging threat from Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. As we have seen, the fundamental issue is the vulnerability of IoT devices, which – thanks to market failures – have often been designed with inadequate security.
more →Neil Gershenfeld, the MIT computer pioneer, once made the joke that “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a lightbulb”.1 2 Speaking back in 2005, he was referring to the then emerging technology platform of the Internet of Things (IoT), where all sorts of devices and sensors such as webcams, lights, thermostats and even coffee pots were starting to be IP-enabled and connected to the Internet.
more →Volumetric DDoS attacks are similar in nature to floods to my mind. I regularly term the systems put in place to deal with volumetric DDoS attacks as “flood defences”, to differentiate them from systems used to defeat more sophisticated application-based DDoS attacks. Dealing with floods is often a raw numbers game.
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