Dog collars to toasters are connected as part of the Internet of Things (IoT), with experts predicting that by 2020 more than 50% of new businesses will run on the IoT. However, cyber security and privacy are the biggest challenges for IoT, collecting large amounts of personal identifiable information. As soon as some financial benefit from hacking smart devices appears, cyber criminals will find a way to take advantage of it.
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Charges that the research firm Cambridge Analytica have misused the information of over 50 million Facebook users has been like oil to a flame in questioning the privacy of social media. How much information have social networks stored about you?
Private intelligence gathering firm LocalBlox leaked data on 48 million users that was…
Researchers found a new iOS vulnerability called “trustjacking,” which exploits a feature called…
Microsoft patched a bug that allowed attackers to steal a target’s Windows account…
Political actors and privacy activists are calling for more regulations on data privacy…
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