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Enhancing Private 5G Security in industrial deployments

CIO

The technology also facilitates network slicing, which allows organisations to create wireless virtual networks for specific applications or departments. Businesses can thereby isolate data and reduce the risk of security breaches in the wireless domain, mirroring what they can do today in the wired domain.

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FBI?s router reboot call reminds us why to check for updates

The Parallax

On May 25, the FBI issued a clarion call to a broad swath of Wi-Fi router owners: To clear out a potential botnet malware infection, reboot your router. The malware, VPNFilter, allowed hackers to snoop on all traffic passing through the router, including stealing website log-ins, as well as disable the device.

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Your old router could be a hacking group’s APT pawn

The Parallax

T o create layers of obfuscation that hide an attack’s origins, Grange says, Inception Framework then reroutes its malicious messages at least three times through the hijacked routers before ultimately sending them to their targets, or allowing the hidden malware to communicate with its control server.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO

This includes advanced malware, command-and-control botnets, code injection, and application vulnerabilities. 5G is a wireless protocol and there is risk from rogue base stations in the radio access network (RAN) that can be used to attack the network. Radio rogues.

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Jiobit launches an improved version of its kid (or pet) tracker, the Jiobit Next

TechCrunch

It also leverages the reach of low-power, wide-area (LPWA) wireless networks in order to better serve rural regions where cellular coverage is limited and spotty. It also refuses to download any software that’s not cryptographically signed by Jiobit in order to prevent malware or other “rogue” software from being installed.

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How risk management can help secure industrial IoT and big data

CTOvision

Read Mary Shacklett explain how risk management can help secure industrial Internet of Things and big data on Tech Republic : In 2018, Tesla cars were found to be vulnerable to wireless key fob breaches, and the Medtronic CareLink 2090, a medical device for monitoring and controlling pacemaker settings, was attacked and infected by malware. […]. (..)

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The hidden costs of your helpdesk

CIO

Text messages can be intercepted via malware such as SMS trojan , SIM swapping (an account breaching technique in which fraudsters pay wireless carrier employees to swap a customer’s SIM for one controlled by the threat actor), and OTP interception bots , which can access customers’ one-time-passwords.