“IoT is here to stay, but the proliferation and ubiquity of these devices in the enterprise is creating a much larger attack surface — one which offers easily accessible entry points for hackers,” said Michael DeCesare, president and CEO, ForeScout Technologies, Inc. “The solution starts with real-time, continuous visibility and control of devices the instant they connect — you cannot secure what you cannot see.”Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Kamkar’s research focused on seven common enterprise IoT devices, including IP-connected security systems, smart HVACs and energy meters, video conferencing systems and connected printers, among others.
According to his observations from a physical test situation and analysis from peer-reviewed industry research, these devices pose significant risk to the enterprise because the majority of them are not built with embedded security. Of the devices that were outfitted with rudimentary security, Kamkar’s analysis revealed many were found to be operating with dangerously outdated firmware.
Additionally, research included a physical hack into an enterprise-grade, network-based security camera. Entirely unmodified and running the latest firmware from the manufacturer, the camera proved itself vulnerable and ultimately allowed for the planting of a backdoor entryway that could be controlled outside the network. To view the hack in its entirety, please visit.
Key findings
The identified seven IoT devices can be hacked in as little as three minutes, but can take days or weeks to remediate.
Should any of these devices become infected, hackers can plant backdoors to create and launch an automated IoT botnet DDoS attack.
Cybercriminals can leverage jamming or spoofing techniques to hack smart enterprise security systems, enabling them to control motion sensors, locks and surveillance equipment.
With VoIP phones, exploiting configuration settings to evade authentication can open opportunities for snooping and recording of calls.
Via connected HVAC systems and energy meters, hackers can force critical rooms (e.g. server rooms) to overheat critical infrastructure and ultimately cause physical damage.
The IoT footprint continues to expand, showing little to no signs of slowing down. Analyst firm Gartner predicts that 20 billion connected devices will be deployed by 2020, with as many as a third of these sitting unknowingly vulnerable on enterprise, government, healthcare and industrial networks around the globe. In turn, hackers are now easily able to pivot on insecure devices into the secure network, and ultimately access other enterprise systems that could store bank account information, personnel files or proprietary business information.
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BREAKING: Turkish President @RT_Erdogan says we are going to liberate al-Bab, Manbij and Raqqa following call with @BarackObama.
Maybe the TAF/FSA should first complete the taking of Al Bab first and then swing a tad closer to Aleppo.
Well we now know....additional Russian ships to shell Aleppo...the Russians always do the direct opposition of what they say they will.....old Ukrainian switch and bait tactic.......
Worst fears confirmed. Russia denies warships will bombard Aleppo
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKCN12R0RN#
N. #Hama: Jaish Al-Izza blew up with a #TOW an #ATGM position on rooftop in E. outskirts of #Souran.
MORE air strikes on schools......first it was hospitals and now it is schools....
Syria 7 dead (children) after airstrikes on school in #Damascus #Douma
https://youtu.be/DWzfpJsk9EU
Syria Several children injured by regime artillery shelling on Huwayz in #Hama's Ghab plain
Syria Rebels claim killed group of #Assad-forces tried to advance on #Souran town in northern #Hama
Syria Life returns to #Souran town in northern #Aleppo after #IS expelled from #FSA
Syria Airstrikes on #Idlib's Ariha, Khan Shaykhun & Jisr al-Shughour towns
UN Emergency Coordinator called #Syria's eastern #Aleppo a "Death Zone"
Syria Heavy airstrikes now on western #Aleppo suburbs
NW #Hama: Jaish Al-Tahrir shelled with Grad rockets Regime stronghold of #Jourin & Shathah in Ghab plain. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35...70676&z=12&m#
Aleppo: Rebels repelled another attack in Salah Al-Din district. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...22288&z=13&m#
Pro-#Assad militia chief survives assassination bid in #Latakia, blames #Turkey intelligence
http://mme.cm/KRBW00
Aleppo: Rebels have captured #Duwayr_Hawa and #Al_Ablah villages from #ISIS.
Aleppo: Rebels have captured #Tal_Ali village from #ISIS.
Hama: Rebels have destroyed an #Assad military convoy between #Maardas and #Souran.
Syria: Another #Iran|ian #IRGC General was killed in #Syria, probably by rebels in #Aleppo.
Hama: Reports that pro-#Assad forces in #Souran are surrounded by rebels.
Hama: Rebels have killed 50 pro-#Assad forces in #Souran so far.
Hama: Heavy fighting in #Souran town. Rebel reinforcements, including Jund al-Sham, arrived to repell #Assad regime attack.
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We will be seeing shortly if Erdogan holds to his boosting about taking Al Bab, Manbij and Raqqa.......
Aleppo: Rebels are 18 kilometers away from #Manbij.
In an apparent move to avoid #YPG/#Assad lines on their way to al-Bab, #EuphratesShield forces took three more villages.
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AssadPutin air strikes on civilians south west of #Damascus today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URXZvbEH10w#
Footage
#AssadPutin air strikes on #Lataminah & #Morek in #Hama today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBOXmMS-qQ#
AssadPutin air strike on #KafrNaha, west of #Aleppo today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCvgoBpv7uA#
Just another day in #Douma.
Her eyes ask: "Why do you allow this to continue, world?!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DtcnyM7uE#
Tomorrow in Moscow the Russian FM is meeting with the Syrian FM and the Iranian FM......interesting to see the meeting statement when it is over......
Breaking || #Hama
Free Syrian Army forces destroy car full of regime militia on road between Souran & Maardes in rural N.Hama
Breaking || #EuphratesShield
#FSA forces take control of Douir & Aable NW of al-Bab from #Daesh in north rural #Aleppo province
Breaking || #EuphratesShield
#FSA forces take control of Tel Ali (Kerbajli) south of Ghandoura from #Daesh after intense operation
FSA || #Hama
Free Syrian Army forces sending reinforcements to Souran frontline in northern Hama countryside
Amaq claims that #IS has blown up two vehicles containing #Syria's rebels, in the villages of Thalthana and Tal Jijan, north-west of al-Bab.
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The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef
Initial reports of 7 killed & many in critical condition as #Douma is being targeted with rocket artillery, artillery bombardment & SSM's
Russian war crimes update.....
The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef
#Has update: 7 Airstrikes targetd a complex of 3schools & surroundings at~ 10:45. 26 killed incl 20 chldrn & 3wmn. 30 injured incl 10 chldrn
The takfiri jihadists on #Assad's side don't get the attention they deserve:
Hezbollah to Defeat 'Apostate Project'
Meanwhile in Lebanon, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah cast the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar Assad as a facade designed to weaken Iran's regional access and make "changes to the map", vowing to stay in the country until it could "defeat the apostate project."
Nasrallah in a speech Sunday afternoon said the Syrian rebellion is "not about the fall of the regime, but about targeting the axis of resistance," a reference to the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah alliance. Assad has long provided a corridor for Iranian weapons shipments to the Lebanese militant group which grew out of the resistance to the Israeli occupation of Lebanon's south between 1982 and 2000.
Thousands of Hezbollah fighters are on the ground in Syria in defense of Assad's government and senior commanders in Iran's powerful Republican Guard are in advisory positions.
Even supporters of the #IranDeal now concede it enabled #Iran's surge in imperialism, especially in Syria.
http://bit.ly/2ffZfmo#
Insurgency prepares for zero hour in #Aleppo: coordinated operations room between Jaysh al-Fatah and FSA in place
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/in...les-for-aleppo
FootageIt is nearly zero hour, and Syrian rebels are girding for a decisive assault on Aleppo, which they say could decide the outcome of the war.
Thousands of fighters from a range of militias are heading north from the rebel's stronghold in Idlib ready to take part in the assault.#
Dozens of vehicles have been converted into#suicide#VBIEDs#or car bombs to pave way for the#first phase of the attack by 600 specially trained "storm troopers".
If they are successful and break the regime's siege of east Aleppo, they could well rout the regime from the whole city, and secure northern Syria for the opposition.
If they fail, Aleppo will almost certainly fall into the regime's hands and the future for the Syrian opposition will look very bleak indeed.
"The fight for Aleppo will be the final battle," one rebel fighter told The New Arab.
The M46 is back in action south west of #Aleppo.
A harbinger of things to come?! ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmm6MIjXMGw#…
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Well worth reading especially with the fast movement of TAF/FSA towards Al Bab and then on to Manbij or vice versa if Erdogan deems it necessary....
My latest, The inevitable confrontation between Turkey and Syrian Kurds
https://shar.es/1EPVMh#
via @MiddleEastEye
In a sudden shift on 19 October, the Turkish-led Euphrates Shield operation moved on the town of Tal Rifaat in northern Aleppo, held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), instead of its original plan to seize the city of al-Bab from the Islamic State group.
As long as there is no solid agreement between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds on how to coexist, a military confrontation is inevitable
The offensive resulted in dozens of casualties as Turkish warplanes and artillery fired on Kurdish targets. This attack was later suspended on 24 October in order to pursue the original goal of capturing al-Bab.
Although military confrontations between Turkey and Syrian Kurds are expected, the exact reasons for these sudden changes remain largely unclear.
Alliances and enmities
The Turkish-backed offensive, a coalition of Syrian rebel groups supported by Turkish troops, was#launched#on 24 August to take the border town of#Jarablus#and hamper both SDF and IS aims in northern Syria.
Turkey is worried that advances by Syrian Kurdish fighters will embolden Kurdish militants in its own southeast, where it has been fighting an insurgency for three decades led by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).#
Continued.....
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Footage
Rebels defend #Souran from pro-#Assad forces.
Only light weapons involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRbcElbWgp4#
According to French FM @jeanmarcayrault, either #Putin or #Assad bombed the school in #Idlib yesterday.
Casualty number is up to 43.
Ah.....now we see the true Russian Chechnya solution come finally out and be admitted by Putin himself.......destroy the entire eastern Aleppo to save the civilians...so killing 300,000 seems to be not a problem for him......
JUST as the same failure occurred in VN....burn down the villages to save the villagers"....did not work there and will not work in Aleppo.....
Putin: "choice in Aleppo is either leave it as a hotbed of terrorism, or minimise the victims among civilians and destroy that hotbed"
SO exactly again is he attacking Aleppo WHEN the center of his terrorism lies in Raqqa?
BECAUSE that is what he told the UNGA he was going to do....or at least his words stated that....
Russia testing ground - 'Prototype' Ka-52K & Ka-31SV helicopters expected to trialed in #Syria theatre
I do not understand what kind of Putler's bribe can hold them off a very simple conclusion any more:
- Russian Su-34, followed by Russian Su-24:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBfaawEj88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RrXnJHuV0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuMMByJb_1E
For those who lack the time to watch, below the crucial stills (and yes, that's 100% a VKS Su-24M: note that wings are swept fully forward; slow speed is necessary to improve precision of that famed SVP-24...).
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