Ericsson intros industrial IoT workforce safety device for mining, manufacturing

Ericsson has combined with industrial design consultancy Sigma Connectivity and industrial IoT firm Mobilaris to produce a cellular IoT tracking device for the mining industry, and other industrial environments. The trio, all based in Sweden, said the wearable NB-IoT / LTE-M device uses “sensors, monitoring, and real-time positioning” to issue proximity triggers and collision alerts…

70 European and South American Banks Under Attack By Bizarro Banking Malware

A financially motivated cybercrime gang has unleashed a previously undocumented banking trojan, which can steal credentials from customers of 70 banks located in various European and South American countries. Dubbed “Bizarro” by Kaspersky researchers, the Windows malware is “using affiliates or recruiting money mules to operationalize their attacks, cashing out or simply to helping [sic]…

The State of Security and Privacy

Christian Auty, partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, and leader of BCLP’s U.S. Global Data Privacy and Security Team, joins Peggy to talk about data security and data privacy and looking to the future issues. He also explains the attack surface is vast and there are 50 different data breach laws in the United States—one for…