by wwarren | Nov 17, 2017 | Amazon, Cloud Computing, Internet, IOT, Security
Amazon Key IMO is a bad idea. The fact that it is based on IOT makes it worse. The very concept of you give someone access to your house with no other controls…there’s a camera to watch them but a camera will not stop anyone from doing anything...
by wwarren | Jul 18, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Internet, IOT, Security, Security Alerts
Yet another IOT security issue. this one is actually a remote code exploit so once again a flaw allows IOT devices to get taken over Two things: Do not let IOT have access to your internal network. It MUST be firewalled onto its own network. Do not allow IOT access...
by wwarren | Apr 4, 2017 | Cloud Computing, General
In the you do not own your IOT device dept comes a tale of IOT woe. A IOT Garage Door opener has disabled a customer’s account due to a poor review and an admittedly toxic comment left by said client. Now the client is effectively locked out of his garage...
by wwarren | Dec 5, 2016 | Hardware, Internet, IOT, Open Source, Security, Security Alerts
From if it sounds to good to be true it probably is department: I was notified about something being hawked on a public Facebook page. Supposedly you can “fire your cable company” with this little box. What got them suspicious is the fact the seller would...
by wwarren | Oct 1, 2016 | Cloud Computing, DDOS, Internet, IOT, Security, Security Alerts
Krebonsecurity editor Brian Krebs now posts showing the source code for the botnet that forced Akamai/Prolexic to boot him off their network. What is amazing is that while Prolexic was struggling to handle nearly 700 megabits there was another even larger DDOS going...