DEFENDING AGAINST HACKS STILL PREVALENT AS IoT POSES NEW THREAT WITH NEW TWISTS ON OLD RISKS
October 1st, 2017
CONSIDER for a moment the long list of items hacked in spectacular fashion for the edification of those who descended on Las Vegas this summer for the annual BlackHat and DEFCON security events: voting machines, ‘smart’ safes, cars, guns, car washes, infusion pumps and radioactivity sensors.
It will come as no surprise to information technology professionals that such demonstrations focused on the ascendancy of the Internet of Things (IoT) and how its proliferation has exponentially increased the ports of entry for attackers. If cyber-defence has long been ...
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