Of 83m devices examined, millions use old, insecure connections or weak passwords, Stanford University found
Computer security is already hard. Everyone from the central bank of Bangladesh to America’s National Security Agency has suffered hacks or data breaches. Thewill make things worse. A world in which more objects are computers is a world with more targets for miscreants.
Hacking an insulin pump would be a convoluted way to kill someone. But less drastic sorts of crime will be possible, too. Ransomware, which prevents use of a computer until cash is paid, is a natural fit for a world where everything is connected. Ransomware for cars or home-lighting systems is a popular near-future prediction at computer-security conferences. Some accidental infections have already happened.
One option is to learn from others. In February the Industrial Internet Consortium, a trade body focused on industrial deployments of the, published a guide to security written by experts from veteran firms such as Fujitsu, Kaspersky Labs and Microsoft. Another is to outsource the problem to those better suited to dealing with it. Arm has fortified its chip designs with built-in security features, as has Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker.
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