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The Economy of Things: the next value lever for telcos

IBM Big Data Hub

Over the years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved into something much greater: the Economy of Things (EoT). The number of IoT connected devices are growing in practically every industry, and is even predicted to reach 29 billion worldwide by 2030. These IoT connected devices form a critical backbone of data for industry.

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Australia: Cyber security round-up – new Cyber Security Strategy, data breach stats and more

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The discussion paper, which acknowledges that the Australian Government was “ill-equipped” to respond to the large scale data breaches which occurred in 2022 (namely Medibank and Optus), emphasises the importance of protecting customer data and enduring that Australians can continue to access critical services in the event of a cyber-attack.

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Discovery of New Internet of Things (IoT) Based Malware Could Put a New Spin on DDoS Attacks

Data Protection Report

Slightly over one year ago, several major distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks took place, including a major event affecting the domain name service provider Dyn , which caused outages and slowness for a number of popular sites, including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in September 2021 – 91 million records breached

IT Governance

According to Website Planet , whose researchers discovered the database, the organisation responsible was GetHealth, a New York City company that syncs data from numerous IOT health and fitness trackers, including FitBits and Apple’s Healthkit. Nevada Restaurant Services, Inc. Notice of Data Event – Simon Eye (14,400).

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

There are many types of cyberattacks , with top trends for 2022 including mobile attacks, ransomware, COVID-related scams and hacks, zero-click attacks , malicious QR codes , phishing , cryptojacking , and IoT malware attacks, among others. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online. Ransomware.

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Q&A: Here’s how Google’s labeling HTTP websites “Not Secure” will strengthen the Internet

The Last Watchdog

Related: How PKI can secure IoT. Mozilla and Microsoft have signaled that they each will implement similar distrust events for Firefox and Edge (formerly Internet Explorer) in the near future. It’s true that most financial services and big-name shopping websites have long ago moved to HTTPS.

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In Case You Missed It: Money 20/20 Conference Highlights

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The conference features a variety of topics and sessions regarding all aspects of financial services, from cryptocurrency to banking. The migration of payments to EMV, which converted payments into an application on chip cards, was the enabler for making payment information available in a variety of devices, e.g. mobile or IoT.