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New certification program trains cyber pros in cloud, IoT and other emerging tech

SC Magazine

A visitor looks at an IoT & 5G motherboard at the booth of STMicroelectronics during Electronica China 2021 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre on April 14, 2021 in Shanghai, China. The world of IoT is a vast one to learn for infosec practitioners, but ultimately it comes down to seeing them tiny computers, said Brewer.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

Ransomware was a relatively obscure form of malware until the early 2010s , but it has increased in scope and the amount of damage it has caused year after year, aided by a proliferation of botnets , cryptocurrencies , and sophisticated criminal enterprises. Unfortunately, IoT devices can be vulnerable to data leaks, cyberattacks and hackers.

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MY TAKE: What it takes to beat cybercrime in the age of DX and IoT: personal responsibility

The Last Watchdog

This makes Vidar capable of stealing cryptocurrencies from digital wallets. The good news is that an unparalleled acceleration of research has commenced in next-gen network architectures, including distributed databases, advanced encryption, datafication and artificial intelligence.

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How to make sure your digital transformation is secure

CyberSecurity Insiders

Technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, edge computing, and AI have the ability to drastically improve the service and operations of any business. Notably used to protect cryptocurrencies, organisations have increasingly turned to blockchain as a method of protecting sensitive data within their network.

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Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-party, Ransomware and AI Attacks Will Get Worse

eSecurity Planet

Third-party security, ransomware , artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are some of the threats you can expect to see more of this year – with the potential for far worse results than we’ve seen in the past. Cryptocurrency is the Wild West of the digital world today.

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Cybersecurity in 2022, Predictions for digital ecosystem facing more challenges and sophisticated threats

CyberSecurity Insiders

Ransomware is more favored by hackers nowadays because they can get paid in cryptocurrencies that are hard to trace. OT/IT and IoT convergence. State of the IoT 2020: 12 billion IoT connections (iot-analytics.com). Ransomware is not new, and it has been around for decades.A 2022 will be more of the same.

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Digital Transformation starts with the Employees

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As in previous years, digital transformation remained a key theme at the event as well as discussions around artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies impacting the workforce. There are two opinions out there about these new technologies when it comes to workforce implications.