Software AG wants to make carriers the go-to agents for private 5G campus networks in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and the collective face for new 5G-geared industrial change. The Darmstadt based company, which positions itself already as the leading provider of IoT-based analytics and integration tools for the telco set, reckons mobile operators can position themselves as…
Sony today released a video showcasing the hardware of the PlayStation 5, as well as giving us our first real perspective on the console, and holy goodness it’s a big one. Its height seems to primarily ensure it runs cool and silent, and it’s also outfitted with some rather attractive internals. It’s certainly a better…
CISA warned already-strained public-sector entities about disturbing spikes in Emotet phishing attacks aimed at municipalities.
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Security researchers from Netlab have discovered two new IoT botnets called HEH and Ttint. Netlab is the network research division of Chinese cybersecurity giant Qihoo 360. The company’s researchers first spotted the Ttint botnet targeting Tenda routers using two zero-day vulnerabilities. Ttint spreads a remote control trojan based on code from the Mirai malware. Mirai…
The Zigbee Alliance has started a new Europe-focused special interest group to promote the short-range technology in the European market. The group is chaired by Swedish flat-pack furniture company Ikea, which integrates Zigbee into its smart lighting products. The European group will also lead the work programme for the alliance’s Connected Home over IP project,…
A new algorithm that predicts the susceptibility of different animals to COVID-19 suggests that horses and camels are at increased risk of catching the virus. The project was initiated by Jacquelyn Brown, a staff scientist at Vanderbilt University and avid equestrian, after she learned that dogs and cats could be infected with COVID-19: I became…
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team, the HEH Botnet — written in Go language and armed with a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, spreads via a…
Security researchers from Netlab have discovered two new IoT botnets called HEH and Ttint. Netlab is the network research division of Chinese cybersecurity giant Qihoo 360. The company’s researchers first spotted the Ttint botnet targeting Tenda routers using two zero-day vulnerabilities. Ttint spreads a remote control trojan based on code from the Mirai malware. Mirai…
Sigfox has made good on its promise to hit the magic dollar mark for asset tracking devices, and to shore up its position in the fragmented IoT networking space as the sector searches for ‘massive’ global scale. The France-based narrowband IoT networking firm, which had 16.2 million connections on its networks at last count, is…
Hyundai‘s first batch of seven XCIENT hydrogen fuel cell-powered trucks have been presented to its customers in Switzerland today, kicking off the company’s plan to deliver 1,600 such zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles by 2025. That’s the result of a joint venture between Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility (HHM) and Swiss firm H2 Energy. 50 of those will roll…
