Security

The secret behind the success of Mirai IoT botnets

Public posting of the source code makes it script-kiddie simple

The FIDO Alliance provides strong authentication for online services  

Passwords are too weak to be a solo means of authentication. The FIDO Alliance has developed new protocols that enable strong authentication for online and mobile services

A spam-control issue unique to Australia?

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

ARM's new mbed Cloud for device management is part of its IoT strategy, and so are server and network chips

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

On the heels of massive IoT-enabled DDoS attack, security experts make their pitches to SIMposium 2016 attendees

FCC tells ISPs to get customer permission before sharing sensitive info

But the rules only apply to broadband providers, not to Google, Facebook, and other web-based companies

No need to shoot down drones! Many of them can now be hijacked

A researcher devised an attack against a popular wireless control protocol called DSMx

DARPA looking to develop drone destroying, personnel protection system

DARPA’s Mobile Force Protection system should sense, identify and protect personnel from swarming drone attacks

Lessons learned from the DYN attack

Friday’s DDoS attack came from 100,000 infected devices

DNS service provider Dyn says Mirai-powered botnets were the primary source for Friday's disruption