Police in the Netherlands are exploring the use of trained eagles to protect against rowdy, unwanted drones. The birds of prey, after centuries of evolution, are uniquely suited to snatch smaller objects zipping through the air and bring them to the ground in humiliating fashion.
“It’s a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem,” said a police spokesman. “We use the birds’ age-old hunting instinct to intercept and neutralize drones.”
IoT search service Shodan.io has launched a new section of its site for searching Webcams that aren’t properly secured.
Anyone with a paid account can browse the service’s collection of Webcam images, taken from a variety of settings, from schools to people’s homes. According to Ars Technica, a security expert was able to find easily “marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash register cameras in retail stores.”
IoT security represents a real and looming threat as we enable data gathering through more and more of our formerly dumb appliances, and regulations — as well as counter-tech — need to catch up quickly.
Read more: Ars Technica
We’ll probably never get a new Hitman game as good as Blood Money was, and we certainly won’t get a good movie out of that franchise, and now one guy thinks the future version of 47 will be a hacker who knows his or her way around IoT protocols, not piano wire.
Lev Lesokhin, EVP for Strategy at CAST Software, thinks the current lack of focus on stringent security for IoT at every level of development may create freelance “remote hitmen” — as well as drive up enterprise costs to address those security gaps in the long term.
“Its proponents see the Internet of Things as being filled with incredible opportunities; ironically, hackers perceive it to be the same way. Sitting hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away, they could be in position to cause all kinds of damage to individuals, to companies, or more.”
One example Lesokhin provides is the recent FDA safety alert to healthcare companies to stop using a specific networked drug pump, given that a patient’s drug dosage could potentially be altered remotely by someone who knew which IP ports the pump uses. Scary stuff, especially when considered alongside Jeep’s recall to address concerns about insecure braking systems.
Read the article: SC Magazine UK