As millions upon millions of IoT and Industrial IoT devices get deployed every month, we seem to have forgotten what we learned the hard way about our computers: if we don’t patch them, the hackers will invade. #1: A set of bugs called Urgent/11 affected a network module that has been around since the 90s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been ranting about Software Bills of Material or SBoM for a while. This week I have two examples of why this is important – even critical. The first story is about a TCP/IP network stack and the vulnerability is called Amnesia:33. It impacts four open source libraries – uIP, FNET, picoTCP and Nut/Net. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First the wise guy answers: Too Long and It Depends. Unfortunately, both are true. For a lot of companies, 30 to 60 days seems to be the average. Company size doesn’t seem to be a factor. We recently worked with a smallish company (less than 150 people) and it was 30 days before they were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Covid happened 9 months ago no one really knew what to expect. I am not sure that anyone still knows what to expect, but it looks like that Work From Home (WFH) is here to stay. Many companies have decided that it has not negatively impacted productivity and some even say that productivity is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The new law is called The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act and it is a start. Just a start. While no one can agree how many billions of IoT devices are going to installed when, what we do know is that it is going to be tens of billions of devices and growing dramatically […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think that in 2020 we wouldn’t have to tell people not to use default passwords. You would certainly think that we wouldn’t have to tell government IT folks not to do that. But if you thought that, apparently, you would have thought wrong. We are still telling end users to change the password […]
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