The turbulent waters of the internet of things (IoT) will soon become more navigable — thanks to the recently adopted ISO/IEC 30141 standard, which defines reference architecture for IoT solutions. For our part, Kaspersky has been actively involved in the development of trust principles for IoT devices as laid out by the ISO/IEC TS 30149:2024 specification....

We’ve recently been informed by the Google Play store that our developer account has been terminated and all Kaspersky apps have been removed from the store. Google’s decision refers to recent U.S. government actions restricting the distribution and sales of Kaspersky products in the United States after September 29. Although these restrictions have...

Episode 365 kicks off with discussion around Donald Trump’s recent courting of the crypto world. From there talk moves to Mozilla’s recent decision to enable Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA) by default – and that’s got some in the EU worried. To wrap up the team discuss two stories related to A.I – first around Microsoft suggesting that omnipresent...

In September 2024, a team of researchers from both the University of Florida and Texas Tech University presented a paper detailing a rather sophisticated method for intercepting text entered by users of the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset. The researchers dubbed this method GAZEploit. In this post, we’ll explore how the attack works, the...

A very troubling trend in recent years has been the rising number of cyberattacks targeting educational institutions. The United States, for instance, has seen school education become one of the most targeted sectors. According to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the number of attacks on schools increased by 55% from 2022 to 2023. A...

Skills shortages in the cybersecurity industry are hardly a new phenomenon; however, in recent years it has become painfully acute. The trigger was the coronavirus pandemic, which provoked rapid digitalization of most everything in the world, and an equally rapid increase in the number of cyberattacks. This led to demand for cybersecurity professionals...