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Credit to Author: Matt Hamblen| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:57:00 -0800

BARCELONA — Homeowners worried about cybersecurity attacks on IP-connected devices like lights, baby monitors, home security systems and cameras, will soon be able to take advantage of a $200 network monitoring device called Dojo.

The device was shown at Mobile World Congress here this week and will go on sale online in April. While the Dojo device isn’t intended to provide enterprise-level security, it could be used to help, in a small way, in warding off massive attacks like the one that used the Mirai botnet which took advantage of unsecure, consumer-grade cameras and other devices last October.

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ComputerWorld Independent

February 28, 2017 admin

Smart teddy bears involved in a contentious data breach

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:09:00 -0800

If you own a stuffed animal from CloudPets, then you better change your password to the product. The toys — which can receive and send voice messages from children and parents — have been involved in a data breach involving more than 800,000 user accounts.

The breach, which grabbed headlines on Monday, is raising concerns from security researchers because it may have given hackers access to voice recordings from the toy’s customers. But the company behind the products, Spiral Toys, is denying that any customers were hacked.

“Were voice recordings stolen? Absolutely not,” said Mark Myers, CEO of the company.

Security researcher Troy Hunt, who tracks data breaches, brought the incident to light on Monday. Hackers appear to have accessed an exposed CloudPets’ database, which contained email addresses and hashed passwords, and they even sought to ransom the information back in January, he said in a blog post.

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ComputerWorld Independent

February 28, 2017 admin

This tiny chip could revolutionize smartphone and IOT security

Credit to Author: Martyn Williams| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:43:00 -0800

Engineers at South Korea’s SK Telecom have developed a tiny chip that could help secure communications on a myriad of portable electronics and IOT devices.

The chip is just 5 millimeters square — smaller than a fingernail — and can generate mathematically provable random numbers. Such numbers are the basis for highly-secure encryption systems and producing them in such a small package hasn’t been possible until now.

The chip, on show at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, could be in sample production as early as March this year and will cost a few dollars once in commercial production, said Sean Kwak, director at SK Telecom’s quantum technology lab.

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MalwareBytes Security

February 28, 2017 admin

Decrypting after a Findzip ransomware infection

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:00:47 +0000

The Findzip ransomware was discovered on February 22, 2017. At that time, it was thought that files would be irreversibly encrypted by this ransomware, with no chance of decryption. Turns out, that’s not quite true.

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Security TrendMicro

February 28, 2017 admin

Takeaways from the 2016 Threat Landscape

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:00:09 +0000

Every year Trend Micro takes a look back at the threat landscape from the previous year and analyzes the data we receive from our massive customer base around the world and reports on the trends we saw and the key threats that affected the cyber world. In our 2016 security roundup report, A Record Year…

Security Wired

February 28, 2017 admin

After 3 Years, Why Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Is Still Vapor

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:27:05 +0000

Is the effort to end-to-end encrypt Gmail dead, or just a lot harder than it looks? The post After 3 Years, Why Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Is Still Vapor appeared first on WIRED.

Security Wired

February 28, 2017 admin

A Murder Case Tests Alexa’s Devotion to Your Privacy

Credit to Author: Gerald Sauer| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:00:27 +0000

Opinion: An Arkansas legal case is testing whether Amazon can be forced to share information collected by Alexa with law enforcement. The post A Murder Case Tests Alexa’s Devotion to Your Privacy appeared first on WIRED.

Security Wired

February 28, 2017 admin

This Brilliant Plan Could Stop Drone Terrorism. Too Bad It’s Illegal

Credit to Author: Douglas Starr| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:45:14 +0000

Black Sage Technologies’ track-and-jam system guards against airborne attacks on sporting events and other large-crowd gatherings. Just one hitch: US law. The post This Brilliant Plan Could Stop Drone Terrorism. Too Bad It’s Illegal appeared first on WIRED.