Another challenging year ahead for smartphones

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, global smartphone shipments will face another challenging year in 2019 with volumes forecast to decline 1,9% from 2018. This will mark the third consecutive year of market contraction driven by highly...

Realtek SDK exploits on SA devices on the rise from Egypt

ASERT’s IoT honeypot network, which continuously monitors known exploit vectors, says it has detected a spike in exploit attempts targeting the Realtek SDK miniigd SOAP vulnerability in consumer-based routers from the end of April 2019 until the first half of...

Enterprise WLAN market experiences moderate growth

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 6,9% year over year in the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), finishing at $2,4-billion. According to results published in IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly WLAN...

Strong growth for wearables in Q1

Global shipments of wearable devices reached 49,6-million units during the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), up 55,2% from the previous year according to data from the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. While wrist-worn wearables accounted for the...
Short life-expectancy for today’s enterprise blockchain projects

Short life-expectancy for today’s enterprise blockchain projects

By 2021, 90% of current enterprise blockchain platform implementations will require replacement within 18 months to remain competitive, secure and avoid obsolescence, according to Gartner. “Blockchain platforms are emerging platforms and, at this point, nearly...

Notorious cybergang TA505 strikes again

Investigators from CyberInt Research have discovered further activities by the suspected Russian-speaking cybergang TA505. The group has been detected targeting financial institutions in Chile with a slightly modified modus operandi following CyberInt’s public...