Many Android device OEMs may have offerings with similar flaws, any of which could provide an avenue in to home networks and even enterprise resources.
ReFirm provides drag-and-drop automated firmware analysis, which Microsoft hopes will provide security insight for industrial IoT products, where security personnel often struggle to look inside built-in hardware.
Hackers with minimal experience and technical expertise are increasingly targeting industrial networks, driving a new wave of low sophistication OT breaches that researchers tell SC Media is a strong learning opportunity for criminals.
IoT security is bad mostly everywhere, but threats against medical devices bring some of the most worrying potential for damage against health care organizations and their patients.
In predictions for 2030, researchers honed in on a list of emerging technologies that could create new wrinkles in the security landscape, including automation, machine learning and AI, additive manufacturing and the prevalence of 5G and widescale IoT.
Today's special columnist, Scott Register of Keysight Technologies, says government and industry must come together to secure the nation's critical infrastructure in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack.
The flaws affect at least 25 different products made by more than a dozen organizations, including Amazon, ARM, Google Cloud, Samsung, RedHat, Apache and others.