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IoT and Cybersecurity: What’s the Future?

Security Affairs

IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes of the internet, as happened in 2016 when Mirai malware infiltrated devices such as baby monitors and refrigerators and locked them into a botnet for the Dyn cyberattack. Big Data storage systems have weaknesses. And so, the data breaches keep getting bigger.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

“The use of deepfake techniques in fraudulent activities… will elevate the sophistication of phishing fraud, making it increasingly challenging for users to distinguish between legitimate services and scams.” continues Ricardo Villadiego, founder & CEO of Lumu. “By

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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

WIRED Threat Level

As with many other types of sensitive and revealing data, the government seems intent on using data brokers to buy their way around important guardrails and limits.” That includes location data harvested from smartphones , utility data , and internet backbone data.

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