Beware Dirty Dishes

IQ + Homes = Hacker Heaven In a shocking (not really) discovery, researchers discovered a major exploit that impacts LG smart dishwashers.  Using this massive security hole, hackers can readily break into these dishwashers and…err…see your dirty dishes?...

Security Software Has To Change

In-Band Security Is Bad It continues to surprise me how many people still do not know about the Kaspersky Russian Spyware fiasco.  In short, Kaspersky is one of the most widely-installed anti-virus software in the world.  Many people knowingly added it to their...

Stopping The Reaper

Fear The Reaper In a prior post, we warned you that this was going to happen, that the series of bot attacks were a prelude to the real action.  Now it is here, the Reaper botnet attack is threatening to take down the Internet.  The best part? There is nothing we can...

Secure Unified Management Required

The Foundation Recently ARM revealed their new Platform Security Architecture which is a brilliant bottom-up model for securely loading systems in an IoT world.  Many mobile device manufacturers, such as Samsung, are following a similar path.  While these efforts are...

Parental Supervision For The IoT

The Pendulum Dell recently announced a new distributed core in which all processing is pushed to edge IoT devices.  Their rationale is that current centralized management systems are just too slow to handle the speed and autonomous nature of modern IoT deployments. ...