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Software Containment in VxWorks: VxPOD – A Separation Alternative to Virtualization

Software Containment in VxWorks: VxPOD – A Separation Alternative to Virtualization

The challenge in hardware consolidation for real-time embedded systems is ensuring that sub-systems don’t interfere with each other. To take advantage of the space and hardware...

8 years 6 months ago

When is an IoT Botnet not an IoT Botnet?

When is an IoT Botnet not an IoT Botnet?

IoT botnets continue to make news, with new strains of malware infecting a range of internet-connected devices and then using those devices to participate in historically large...

8 years 7 months ago

Immunization Against the IoT Zombie Horde

Immunization Against the IoT Zombie Horde

IoT zombies are out there. There are a lot of them. We won’t be rid of them soon. They will be reaching out to your device, so it’s important to take steps now to immunize it so...

8 years 7 months ago

IoT Zombies are Eating the Internet

IoT Zombies are Eating the Internet

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have always been a problem for popular hosted sites, but the ones from the last few weeks are different. The first one to make the news...

8 years 8 months ago

Mitigating the IoT Attack Surface

Mitigating the IoT Attack Surface

Modern day use cases for “IoT-like” applications date back to the earliest days of manned space flight for monitoring astronaut vital signs and shuttle telemetry – mission critical...

8 years 9 months ago

Automotive networks can benefit from security layers

Automotive networks can benefit from security layers

Last year, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek reported their security research on a Jeep Cherokee. They were able to remotely break into the...

8 years 10 months ago

From Mars to Earth, Wind River Is Applying Three Decades of Experience to Thwart Vehicle Hacking

From Mars to Earth, Wind River Is Applying Three Decades of Experience to Thwart Vehicle Hacking

Imagine you’re driving a two-ton SUV that’s traveling 70 miles-per-hour on the highway when suddenly, beyond your control, the air-conditioner fan starts blasting, the radio blares...

8 years 10 months ago

The Role of System Updates in IoT

The Role of System Updates in IoT

In the brave new world that the Internet of things (IoT) is shaping, operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) are quickly converging. Up until now, IT was seen...

8 years 10 months ago

Develop. Deploy. Defend.

Develop. Deploy. Defend.

The factory floor is geting a makeover with intelligent connected devices. The server room is no longer a stuffy place. A majority of enterprises are strategically on the Internet...

Sealing data with TPM on VxWorks

Sealing data with TPM on VxWorks

VxWorks support for data protection makes use of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a secure cryptoprocessor used to establish root of trust in security systems. TPMs can be used...