IOT vulnerabilities and cyber security

The impact of the IoT has been revolutionary. It has brought great benefits, but also serious problems. More personal data than ever before now exists on cloud servers. Privacy has become a serious concern. An awareness project created by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), addresses ten problems found in IoT security. The first problem is the insecure web interface. Not having a secure web interface can lead to data loss, corruption, and compromised devices. Many web interfaces are intended to be on an internal network. This causes threats to be unexpected and security ignored. Most expect an attack to come from an external source.

As we learned in earlier chapters, attacks can come from ...

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