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Top IoT messaging protocols are laughably insecure, Trend Micro research shows

Dec04
by on December 4, 2018 at 2:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro today published a report on the state of IoT security. The company found that two of the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols have inherent design issues, and are frequently deployed in an insecure manner. According to Trend Micro’s report, The Fragility of Industrial IoT’s Data Backbone, the issues lie with two popular M2M protocols — Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). These are frequently used in IoT devices, particularly those found within an industrial context. The report, which was written by researchers Federico Maggi and Rainer Vosseler, states that using simple keyword…

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Top IoT messaging protocols are laughably insecure, Trend Micro research shows

Dec04
by on December 4, 2018 at 2:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro today published a report on the state of IoT security. The company found that two of the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols have inherent design issues, and are frequently deployed in an insecure manner. According to Trend Micro’s report, The Fragility of Industrial IoT’s Data Backbone, the issues lie with two popular M2M protocols — Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). These are frequently used in IoT devices, particularly those found within an industrial context. The report, which was written by researchers Federico Maggi and Rainer Vosseler, states that using simple keyword…

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Cryptocurrency whales increase Ethereum stacks by 80% in 2018

Dec04
by on December 4, 2018 at 1:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


There’s no doubt the 2018 bear market has been rough, but some cryptocurrency traders have been taking advantage. Actively trading whales have accumulated more Ethereum this year than at any other time in its history. Blockchain research unit Diar analysed more than 5200 Ethereum addresses to discover cryptocurrency whales who trade regularly are sitting on 80 percent more ETH than the start of the year. In fact, these whales now own over 20 million ETH ($2.2 billion), roughly 20 percent of Ethereum’s circulating supply. This represents a four-fold increase in ETH held by top cryptocurrencers since January 2017, when they owned…

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