Dark Reading is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Database Security
Authentication
Mobile
Privacy
Compliance
Careers and People
Identity & Access Management
Security Monitoring
Advanced Threats
Insider Threats
Vulnerability Management
Comments
Insecure Home IoT Devices a Clear and Present Danger to Corporate Security
Newest First  |  Oldest First  |  Threaded View
REISEN1955
50%
50%
REISEN1955,
 User Rank: Ninja
6/24/2019 | 3:44:51 PM
Re: Consumers should consider security controls?
Have to agree - consumers in general know nothing about computers much less security much less what a secure password is.  " Oh, you mean I should change it?"   " But it was so easy to remember."   This is an old issue and it ain't going away ever.  Live with it. 

Ending is indeed classic: consumers will understand this? Consumers, meanwhile, should consider security controls that can observe traffic at the router-level, identify irregular device behavior, and quarantine malicious network flows or infected devices.

If I tried that on a residential account ==== blank stare for maybe a week. 
BadWiscoJ
100%
0%
BadWiscoJ,
 User Rank: Apprentice
6/19/2019 | 12:14:21 PM
Consumers should consider security controls?
The last comment in your article states that "Consumers, meanwhile, should consider security controls that can observe traffic at the router-level, identify irregular device behavior, and quarantine malicious network flows or infected devices." How exactly do you expect them to do that? Consumer's just aren't knowledgeable enough to do something like this.
nomad52
50%
50%
nomad52,
 User Rank: Apprentice
6/19/2019 | 8:24:41 AM
well duh
This was old news among security auditors three years ago.   nearly zero has been done to secure these devices, identify the actual risks, get vendors to path vulnerabilities or a useful mechanism to apply the patches. 

I keep wondereing what it will take to clean up this mess


Edge-DRsplash-10-edge-articles
I Smell a RAT! New Cybersecurity Threats for the Crypto Industry
David Trepp, Partner, IT Assurance with accounting and advisory firm BPM LLP,  7/9/2021
News
Attacks on Kaseya Servers Led to Ransomware in Less Than 2 Hours
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  7/7/2021
Commentary
It's in the Game (but It Shouldn't Be)
Tal Memran, Cybersecurity Expert, CYE,  7/9/2021
Register for Dark Reading Newsletters
White Papers
Video
Cartoon
Current Issue
Enterprise Cybersecurity Plans in a Post-Pandemic World
Download the Enterprise Cybersecurity Plans in a Post-Pandemic World report to understand how security leaders are maintaining pace with pandemic-related challenges, and where there is room for improvement.
Flash Poll
Twitter Feed
Dark Reading - Bug Report
Bug Report
Enterprise Vulnerabilities
From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database
CVE-2021-34767
PUBLISHED: 2021-09-23
A vulnerability in IPv6 traffic processing of Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software for Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Wireless Controllers could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Layer 2 (L2) loop in a configured VLAN, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition for that V...
CVE-2021-34768
PUBLISHED: 2021-09-23
Multiple vulnerabilities in the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol processing of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Wireless Controllers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected dev...
CVE-2021-34769
PUBLISHED: 2021-09-23
Multiple vulnerabilities in the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol processing of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Wireless Controllers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected dev...
CVE-2021-34770
PUBLISHED: 2021-09-23
A vulnerability in the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol processing of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Wireless Controllers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges or cause a deni...
CVE-2021-34725
PUBLISHED: 2021-09-23
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary commands to be executed with root-level privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation on certain CLI commands. An at...