Abusing the Internet of Things

Employees who are part of the design and supply chain processes should only be given access that pertains to their role. The sup ...

nications as well as details of HBGary’s customers. This led to the resignation of Barr and the closure of HBGary Federal. Hackt ...

FIGURE 7-29. Twitter account of Tesla Motors compromised by vandals The group compromised the Twitter account of Elon Musk (CEO ...

FIGURE 7-30. Twitter account of Elon Musk hacked by vandals In response, Tesla issued the following press release: This case is ...

Most likely, the attackers were able to gain access to the legitimate Twitter accounts of Tesla Motors and Elon Musk by redirect ...

from simple social engineering attacks such as these. They might also be concerned about danger to their physical safety should ...

door locks, and security systems can and doubtless will be leveraged by perpetrators to com- mit acts of bullying. From the cons ...

In 2013, a researcher tried to report a security issue to Facebook that allowed anyone to post on anyone else’s Facebook page (e ...

FIGURE 7-32. Recent bug bounties paid to researchers on HackerOne Conclusion The littleBits platform that we looked at at the be ...

expose GPS data of famous celebrities who own those cars, to tarnish the reputation of the employer. On the other hand, hacktivi ...

Securely Enabling Our Future—A Conversation on Upcoming Attack Vectors We’ve seen a whole range of new attack vectors and threat ...

machines toward a specified target (thereby overloading it and preventing it from being able to serve legitimate requests). Botn ...

contains an accelerometer that can be used to detect if it has been captured by a third party. In that case, Snoopy can be confi ...

The number of devices used by a single user will increase the attack surface. Attackers who have access to a single device will ...

FIGURE 8-1. The Amazon Echo HEARING VOICES 235 ...

The device is a nine-inch-tall speaker and a set of microphones, and has its default wake word set to “Alexa.” Just as with Siri ...

At this point, the user can say “Alexa, turn off lights,” and the Amazon Echo will dutifully cause all 17 lights to go off. Lear ...

Back in 2007, the Windows Vista security issue was not of particular interest to the cyber- security community since the potenti ...

implement controls to lock out accounts if too many unsuccessful login attempts were made in a given period of time. This celebr ...

many electronics companies have a major supply chain presence there. The Chinese govern- ment has also recently issued new regul ...