“People don’t tend to think of security as a priority … It doesn’t come until there’s a crisis.” South-east Asia gets its first massive NB-IoT network
NeuStar’s head of research and development, Barrett Lyon, said: “The risk is that if you don’t have IPv6 as part of your threat model, you could get blindsided. While the attack wasn’t as significant – and nowhere near as damaging as something like Mirai – it does raise questions over whether this is just the beginning of wider IPv6 attacks. However, there are fears now that IPv6 might not be as secure as we once thought, after reports of what could be the first DDoS attack on an IPv6-based system.Īccording to The Register, NeuStar network engineer Wesley George recently identified a significant amount of strange traffic being driven to a client as part of a wider attack, but noticed that packets coming from IPv6 addresses were being sent to an IPv6 host. That is why developers and pioneering internet figures such as Vint Cerf have been calling for the wider adoption of IPv6, which is capable of creating 340 undecillion possibilities, as opposed to IPv4’s 4.3bn. Is IPv6 more vulnerable than we think?Īs we barrel towards a world where there will be 75bn IoT devices by 2025, there is and will be an insatiable demand for IP addresses that simply can’t be met on the current IPv4 standard. The partnership will enable enterprise customers of JT to actually see and manage their cellular connectivity security of IoT and machine-to-machine SIMs via an IoT security dashboard.
’s editor John Kennedy was there on the ground, and he put together a handy list of the seven key trends noticeable throughout, including: smart cities, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), 5G and virtual reality (VR).Īnother piece of news from an Irish perspective at MWC was security player Cellusys announcing that it had forged a partnership with one of the world’s longest-established telcos, Jersey Telecom (JT).
On the internet of things (IoT) calendar, there are few bigger events than Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), which managed to narrowly avoid the worst of the ‘Beast from the East’. This week in IoT, a supposedly bulletproof standard is shown to be not so sturdy, while Mobile World Congress proved that the technology is still a darling for many.
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