Vulnerabilities in Smart Alarms Can Let Hackers Hijack Cars
Vulnerabilities in third-party car alarms managed via their mobile applications were uncovered by security researchers at Pen Test Partners. The security flaws reportedly affect around 3 million cars that use these “smart” internet-of-things (IoT)…
Robert McArdle, Director FTR
Robert is a Director in Trend Micro‘s Forward Looking Threat Research team, where he is involved in analysing the latest Cybercrime threats, specializing in researching the future threat landscape, Open…
Security Threats and Risks in Smart Factories
Smart factories are manifestations of how the industrial internet of things (IIoT) is changing traditional manufacturing. Organizations in the manufacturing sector already have a basic understanding of what smart factories are as…
Security Architecture for Smart Factories
Building smart factories is a substantial endeavor for organizations. The initial steps involve understanding what makes them unique and what new advantages they offer. However, a realistic view of smart factories also…
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Technology Design Issues and Implementation Vulnerabilities
In our latest research paper, titled “The Fragility of Industrial IoT’s Data Backbone: Security and Privacy Issues in MQTT and CoAP Protocols” and written with Rainer Vosseler and Davide Quarta,…
Morton Swimmer, Manager and Senior Threat Researcher
Morton Swimmer was born in New York City, USA, raised there and in Hamburg, Germany, then studied in England and Germany. It was at the University of Hamburg where he…
[Report] Exposed and Vulnerable Critical Infrastructure: Water and Energy Industries
TrendMicro published research at the end of October revealing how exposed human-machine interface (HMI) systems in thousands of critical water and energy organizations around the world could be exploited, causing…
US Cities Exposed: Industries and ICS security
Today, 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66% by 2050. [2] According to the 2010 US Census, that number…
Smart Cities – Moving Toward Utopia with Security in Mind
More than half (54%) of the world’s current population resides in urban areas compared with just 30% in the 1950s. In 2009, the global population was estimated at 6.8 billion…
