Kenneth Schuchman, the creator of the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices, will be spending 13 months behind bars.
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Microsoft opens IoT bug bounty program
Microsoft really wants to secure the Internet of Things (IoT), and it’s enlisting citizen hackers’ help to do it.
Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers
The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars.
As if the world couldn’t get any weirder, this AI toilet scans your anus to identify you
It’s what the researchers call “A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta.”
Researchers speed the death of ‘bad’ data in the race against good
They have a way to inject ‘good’ data – i.e., accurate COVID-19 news or security patches – to outpace the spread of fake news or malware.
Russia’s FSB wanted its own IoT botnet
If you thought the Mirai botnet was bad, what about a version under the control of Russia’s military that it could point like an electronic cannon at people it didn’t like?
NCSC: Secure your webcams now
We don’t want to see what you do behind closed doors, but lots of hackers would be happy to pull up a chair to view that video stream.
Ironpie robot vacuum can suck up your privacy
You might want to unplug this not-so-smart robot: researchers found they can watch video streams piped out from its security camera.
Ring makes 2FA mandatory to keep hackers out of your doorbell account
Amazon is following Google’s lead by forcing all users to use two-factor authentication when logging into their Ring accounts.
Researchers discover weakness in IoT digital certificates
IoT devices are using weak digital certificates that could expose them to attack, according to a study released over the weekend.