Is A Society That’s Fully Connected a Blessing or A Nightmare?

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The internet is a tool that many of us have become to rely heavily on over the past few years. Some people use it to connect to others through chat sites or emails, some use it to do shopping, but whatever the reason, the internet has become an extensive web that interconnects everyone around the world in an instant.  Now, although this may sound like a good thing, is it really?




There may be a whole heap of benefits that we gain from the internet, but equally, there is a whole heap of problems too. Some of the main issues that have arisen with the emergence of the web include job losses in banking and entertainment, hacking, and viruses. And now, with the introduction of the Internet of Things connecting all of our appliances from cars to the cooker, will even more problems follow? Unfortunately, that’s more than likely.

A recent DDoS (distributed denial of service attack) demonstrated that this new wave of technology is not yet robust enough to ward off attacks and a recent program called Mirai could be held responsible for exploiting cheap cameras and video recorders that are connected to the good, old, internet. This destructive program worms its way in by searching the web for IoT devices with very little protection than factory default usernames and passwords and then attacks those that are most vulnerable.

Many of the devices that are getting attacked are Chinese manufactured cameras and DVR’s that are embedded in other equipment such as TVs. It’s not just minor appliances and devices that are getting hacked either. Just last month Tesla were hacked by white hat hackers, Tencent, forcing them to strengthen their security almost instantly.




Security is something companies are going to have to toughen moving forward. However, there isn’t much than can be done in regards to the millions of devices already connected other than to advise people to be extra vigilant and report anything suspicious as soon as possible to the relevant authorities.


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