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Internet of Things Statistics

Information Matters

Finding “reliable” data about the installed base of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, market size and forecasts is not easy and can be expensive if you have to buy a commercial market report. However, there is quite a bit of free data out there which I have collated here. Date: 3 May 2016. billion in 2018, an increase of 14.6%

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Rather than stealing data, adware is more of an irritant forcing users to see unwanted ads. Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. Backdoors. with no internet. Keyloggers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

In the 1950s we started to get early operating systems, and these included supervisory programs that helped manage the data coming in and going back out. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. But the interesting thing about that is that these column oriented data warehouse DBMS are extremely fast at searching. Right, okay.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

And then you get into, like, data analysis, which is interesting. So, secure facilities like data centers or you get into government facilities that are controlling do DoD type facilities. How accurate that is depends on the amount of data you can collect. IF the system is light on data, it might be easily fooled.

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Prediction: 2020 election is set to be hacked, if we don’t act fast

Adam Levin

In 2016 Russia targeted elections systems in all 50 states. While many organizations welcome the hijinks of DefCon participants — including the Pentagon — the voting machine manufacturers don’t generally seem eager to have hackers of any stripe show them where they are vulnerable… and that should worry you. In a word: Yes.

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