Cybersecurity

http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-awareness/europol-warns-of-the-top-8-cybercrime-trends-in-2016/ Cyber crime trends according to European police forces. →

http://electronicsofthings.com/research-articles/smart-phones-will-be-history-soon-says-ericsson-report/?utm_source=eotpage&utm_medium=eotpage&utm_campaign=eotpage&utm_content=eotposts If this prediction will hold true, there will be lot of work for converting embedded developers to IoT experts that understand security. Otherwise this prediction will fail big time with IoT bubble bursting.  →

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html A list of keywords used few years back. →

Brian Krebs site hit with 665 Gbps DDoS attack is back. Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net? Let Brian Krebs answer to that with his The Democratization of Censorship article. Here is my short overview of that article showing some of the main points: John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur →

https://www.statista.com/chart/5983/data-breaches/ →

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/why-the-silencing-of-krebsonsecurity-opens-a-troubling-chapter-for-the-net/ The attack shows how DDoS can be used to silence journalists. Trying to cope this kind of attack is expensive. →

https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-attack/ →

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/51448/security/openssl-high-severity-flaw.html You might need to spare some time to do the update. One of the flaws that affect the popular toolkit has a “high” severity. The Project plans to release OpenSSL versions 1.1.0a, 1.0.2i and 1.0.1u next Thursday September 22 . The OpenSSL Project has already issued three security patches this year that addressed a total of →

http://electronicsofthings.com/expert-opinion/scary-insights-security-smart-things-what-the-iot-startups-dont-pitch-about/?utm_source=eotpage&utm_medium=eotpage&utm_campaign=eotpage&utm_content=eotposts →

http://futurism.com/unbreakable-encryption-work-has-begun-on-the-worlds-first-quantum-enigma-machine/ Quantum encryption promises better encryption – at least in theory. →