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By Smit Kadakia, Chief Data Scientist, Seceon Inc. Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) are not just buzzwords anymore. The broad use of these devices and their impact on our society and modern businesses is changing our everyday life in a way that was unimaginable even a decade ago. Always-on visibility of intruders to your home, precise control of your energy use, and the remote control of your garage and car doors are…

Web developer ‘z0ccc’ has created a website designed to generate a fingerprint of devices based on Google Chrome extensions installed on the visiting browser.  In an exclusive email interview with Bleeping Computer, z0ccc said while the website does not store the fingerprint of visiting devices, the testing shows that information could be potentially used by malicious actors to track users. From a technical standpoint, this fingerprinting action is possible due to a feature of Chrome browser extensions…

A former Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee was convicted of multiple crimes connected to one of the largest US data breaches of all time. Paige Thompson, 36, acting under the handle ‘erratic,’ would have obtained the personal information of more than 100 million people in the infamous Capital One hack in 2019 using a tool she built that searched for misconfigured accounts on AWS. For context, the data breach prompted the company to reach a $190m settlement…

Cybersecurity expert group Cleafy said the threat actors behind the BRATA Android malware are now operating according to an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity pattern. Writing in a blog post on Friday, Cleafy confirmed it first detected three main BRATA variants at the end of 2021, mainly in Great Britain, Italy and Spain. The hacker group would have then changed its attack patterns in recent months. “Threat Actors behind BRATA now target a specific financial…

With around 3.7 million users, PiggyVest is a platform that makes it easier for the average Nigerian to save and invest. According to COO and co-founder Odun Eweniyi, PiggyVest allows people to automate their savings so they can achieve big ambitions like buying a car, funding a goal to continue studying or starting a business. Here, she talks about why she and her co-founders wanted to create a platform that democratises saving and investing to…