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Security Concerns for Internet of Things

Posted May 22, 2015 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

What security implications arise as the Internet of Things (IoT) develops? Editors from a major networking magazine convened a panel of experts for a roundtable discussion focused on that issue. Some of the points raised by participants: IoT security failures - in the case of implanted medical devices, for example - can threaten lives. The degree of the security problem for IoT hinges upon the homogeneity or heterogeneity of the technology. Greater homogeneity makes securing the IoT more difficult. The technology also raises questions about ownership and control of the data it generates.

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05/22/2015 3:53 AM

"Internet of things" ...

The "of things" is redundant nonsense... I wish people would cease using this ludicrous expression.
Just about everything in the universe is "of things" except perhaps abstract thought, but even that is arguable.

Stop it!

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05/22/2015 8:39 AM

I didn't read it because of the title.

I found that it most likely a ploy to cover poor journalism, They like to report on serious matters, but in a nonchalant way.

That what, they would be held accountable for the lack of facts or facts that may be missing or distorted.

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05/22/2015 3:14 PM

I agree with you, what amazes me is that you found that out by not reading it...

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05/22/2015 3:25 PM

Statistics,.....

"I didn't read it because of the title."

Chances are, its not worth it.

Its unlikely that it would have value in it,..... Statistically speaking....

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05/22/2015 8:15 AM

Every time I read about 'the internet of things' I think 'Stuxnet' . Internet of things? No way, now how.

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s/b 'No way, no how.'

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05/22/2015 3:26 PM

Well, that sabotage of a middle eastern power plant was not carried out over the web, because it is a nuclear plant, not a porn website; I mean, it is not available over the internet.

The Stuxnet virus was planted into a technician's tool-kit in a USB, I wander if the CIA swapped the working USB of the guy, for another one looking exactly the same, or they just relied that he wouldn't resist to go online with that Siemens S7 PLC and download whatever it would contain (very hard to believe), or that he received a hefty check and citizenship (or a shot in the head).

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05/23/2015 8:28 AM

I'd heard that the virus likely infected a USB drive while a technician was downloading porn at home. Whoever created Stuxnet attached it to porn that was targeted to that area.

(You say CIA but I don't think any U.S. agency has admitted creating Stuxnet. If it had been U.S. it would more likely have been the NSA. But it is also possible that some agency in a nation in the Middle East created it. It is even possible that the Russians created it and planted it to implicate the U.S. For all the secrecy about who created it, it was found easily enough. -- But conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen.)

Anyway, my point was that having common everyday appliances connected to the web provides a small amount of convenience to the owner, but opens the door to an internet virus that can create a lot of havoc.

The inconvenience - to - convenience risk ratio is too high, imho.

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05/23/2015 12:41 PM

NSA? Oh, never! Oh, maybe just a little. "But, we did it for your own good"!

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05/22/2015 11:08 PM

If you keep doing what you've always done, you will keep getting what you always got. HACKED! and compromised.

These ever widening networks just make hacking easier. The Iot may as well be the total compromise of all things.

Anyone who says this is secure is delusional.

When we abandoned external hard drives for "cloud" storage, we gave all internet security away.

The GAO (Government Accountability Office) has said that airliners are probably susceptible to hacking.

What isn't susceptible if it's all interconnected?
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