Tag: security
DARPA aims to hack sea life to create underwater spy network
NEWSBYTE: The United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is well known for running all kinds of weird and wonderful programs. One of the...
Portugal teams with Cisco on national digitisation plan
The Portuguese government have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cisco to drive a programme of country-wide digitisation.
The focus will be on developing the...
Infrastructure security: Five vital steps to NIS compliance
Ben Worthy, ICS/SCADA security consultant for Airbus CyberSecurity, shares the five critical steps that organisations must take to ensure they are compliant with the...
Kerching! Amazon pays $1 billion for a doorbell. Smart idea?
Amazon has bolstered its smart home offering with the acquisition of Ring, a California-based maker of video doorbells and security cameras, in a deal thought to...
Alexa beware! New smart home tests reveal serious privacy flaws
Amazon Echo among devices from Netatmos, D-Link, Nokia, and Sonos found to raise privacy or security concerns. One device so insecure the vendor was...
Top priest shares ‘The Ten Commandments of A.I.’ for ethical computing
A senior clergyman and government advisor has written what he calls “the Ten Commandments of AI”, to ensure the technology is applied ethically and...
OMG! Mirai malware variant turns IoT devices into proxy servers
NEWSBYTE: Researchers discover that IoT devices are being used to anonymise hackers
Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that turns...
#MWC18: It takes 16,000 phones to mine for £1k of cryptocurrency
Specialist firm Avast launches IoT security platform – and mines for Monero using a smart TV.
Cybersecurity firm Avast is using its presence at Mobile...
Shop Direct deploys AI to improve cybersecurity
Shop Direct, the UK's second largest pure-play digital retailer, has selected software company Vectra’s Cognito AI platform to protect its e-commerce sites and enterprise...
Vodafone to trial air traffic control system for drones
Telecoms giant Vodafone has announced trials of an air traffic control system for drones. The company is using its 4G mobile network and Internet...
IoT ramps up cyber security risk, says in-depth report
A new report finds that most organisations lack the right mix of strategy and execution to tackle rising threats to cybersecurity. And the Internet...
DoubleDoor IoT botnet bypasses firewall using backdoors
Security researchers have uncovered new malware that uses two backdoors to infect IoT devices in order to create a botnet.
Dubbed DoubleDoor, the malware was...