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Conficker making a comeback due to IoT

Caute_cautim — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:27:57 GMT

Hi All

Some important lessons to be learnt from this piece:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-poor-iot-security-is-allowing-this-ten-year-old-malware-to-make-a-comeback/

IoT needs to be monitored and updated like other software, applications and desktops etc and not segmented.

Regards

Caute_cautim

Re: Conficker making a comeback due to IoT

denbesten — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:26:22 GMT

@Caute_cautim wrote:
IoT needs to be monitored and updated like other software, applications and desktops etc and not segmented.

Why one or the other? Defense in depth is your friend. I would suggest updated and segmented.

Re: Conficker making a comeback due to IoT

Caute_cautim — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 05:25:44 GMT

@denbesten Thank you for the correction. There is no solution to this once a worm is released into the wild, if IoT is not updated i.e. firm, hardened and secured - no matter if it is monitored, segmented or segregated it will still be prone to old threats.

Regards

Caute_cautim