No ‘Silver Bullet’ Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks
Karsten Nohl, who was behind this week’s research that outlined new eavesdropping hacks for Alexa and Google Home, says that privacy for smart home assistants still has a ways to go.
Newsmaker Interviews
Marc Rogers: Success of Anonymous Bug Submission Program ‘Takes A Village’
Marc Rogers discusses the logistics behind a recently-proposed anonymous bug submission program, meant to encourage ethical hackers to submit high-level bugs anonymously.
Thousands of IoT Devices Bricked By Silex Malware
A 14-year-old hacker bricked at least 4,000 Internet of Things devices with a new strain of malware called Silex this week. Threatpost talks to the researcher who discovered the malware.
Bruce Schneier discusses the clash between critical infrastructure and cyber threats.
MikroTik, Hadoop clusters, legislation and more will mark the botnet space in 2019.
In this Newsmaker Interview, ‘breach hunter’ Chris Vickery explores a recent spate of breaches from Marriott, USPS and Dell EMC.
The bug bounty “queen” Katie Moussouris discusses the biggest mistakes that companies launching these programs are making.
Concerns over midterm election tampering reach a boiling point in the days leading up to actual voting.
Botnets fused with artificial intelligence are decentralized and self-organized systems, capable of working together toward a common goal – attacking networks.
Criminals have found a mischievous way to mine cryptocurrency. Security researcher Troy Mursch sounds off on why this tricky trend isn’t going away anytime soon.
