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Jumping the Goldfish: IoT insecurity Eight Years Later.

The fish will die Picture the meeting where somebody designs an internet-connected thermometer for a fish tank. Someone asks what the risk is, and...

Two phun phishing emails in two days. Both from the same domain, nac.net, which you might want to add to your block list. Yesterday...

Just a quick reminder to keep yourself safe in your email. Some of the phishing scams are incredibly good – they imitate the actual...

Ah, the lure of free open WiFi! Who can resist? Avoid flakey signal from your smartphone, get faster access and avoid data usage caps....

CAN (Controller Area Network): Controller Area Network aka CAN aka CAN Bus is a wiring standard for vehicles that enables communication between various components and devices without having a host computer. For example doors, brakes, transmission.
Man-in-the-middle: Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks are where a person or software sits in the middle of communication between two parties. For example between your computer and your bank. Web MITM attacks are often performed by self-signed root certificates where someone like a hotel or computer manufacturers certifies the identity of both parties without actually having the authority. Often this is done for advertising purposes to either monitor behavior or inject ads into a data stream. It also exposes any of the data that is supposedly securely encrypted, like your bank credentials.
MITM (Man-in-the-middle): Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks are where a person or software sits in the middle of communication between two parties. For example between your computer and your bank. Web MITM attacks are often performed by self-signed root certificates where someone like a hotel or computer manufacturers certifies the identity of both parties without actually having the authority. Often this is done for advertising purposes to either monitor behavior or inject ads into a data stream. It also exposes any of the data that is supposedly securely encrypted, like your bank credentials.