21st Century Learning and Teaching

According to gizmag, today’s kids expect their toys to connect to the internet, pair with smart devices, and let them join in the latest tech trends, often before their parents. However, while there are good reasons parents should think twice before buying tech toys for their kids, as you will read below, security risks aren’t just confined to gadgets for children.

As the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) rapidly becomes reality as more and more objects are embedded with electronics, software, sensors and network connectivity that enables them to collect and exchange data, how many of your Christmas gifts could be the equivalent of the Trojan Horse? It was a decisive end to the Trojan War when the Greeks used subterfuge to enter the city of Troy, hiding some of their army inside a huge wooden horse. After pretending to sail away, the unsuspecting Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. Later that night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the city gates for the rest of the Greek army to enter and destroy the city. What attackers could be potentially unleashed in your Christmas gifts?

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Vint Cerf is known as a "father of the Internet," and like any good parent, he worries about his offspring -- most recently, the IoT.

"Sometimes I'm terrified by it," he said in a news briefing Monday at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany. "It's a combination of appliances and software, and I'm always nervous about software -- software has bugs."

The Internet of Things will offer the ability to manage many of the appliances we depend on, acknowledged Cerf, who won the Turing Award in 2004. With its ability to continuously monitor such devices, it also promises new insight into our use of resources, he said.

Devices such as Google's Nest thermostat, for instance, can "help me decide how well or poorly I've chosen my lifestyle to minimize cost and my use of resources -- it can be an important tool," he said.

As with so many technological tools, however, there are plenty of potential downsides. Safety is one of them.

Cerf is now vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, but you won't find him enjoying any of the massage chairs the company provides for its employees. "I know they're run by software -- I worry they will fold up on me," he quipped.

As more such appliances are run by software, people will be increasingly reliant on programmers' ability to write good code, he pointed out.

"It's fraught with issues, some technical and some legislative," he said. "Who is liable when an appliance doesn't work the way it should, and what if that's a software question?"

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The way Eugene Kaspersky sees it, there may soon come a day when you wake up and your coffeemaker refuses to brew anything – or worse, will only brew decaf – until you pay up on the ransomware that has infected it.

Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, told some of the company’s top partners at its annual North American Partner Conference here this weekend that he believes IoT stands not only for “Internet of Things,” but also for “Internet of Threats.” The emergence of IP and intelligence in an increasing number of previously disconnected devices will lead to new and novel attack vectors, the executive predicted.

“It’s not just the pleasures of this world, the benefits and the beauty, that we have to think about,” Kaspersky told partners. “We also have to think about the other side, the bad guys, as well.”

And while the coffee maker was a bit of a perhaps a tongue-in-cheek example, Kaspersky said he does see a variety of attack opportunities on devices that have heretofore not been connected to the network. The first one to be hit, he posited, will be right in our living rooms.

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Selon gizmag, nos chères têtes blondes s’attendent aujourd’hui à ce que les jouets offerts puissent se connecter à Internet et être couplés à des appareils intelligents, leur permettant ainsi d’accéder aux dernières tendances technologiques en date, parfois même avant leurs parents. Toutefois, chers parents, bien que nous ne puissions que vous recommander de réfléchir à deux fois avant d’acheter à vos enfants un jouet connecté, soyez vous aussi vigilants car, comme vous pourrez le lire ci-dessous, les risques de sécurité ne concernent pas uniquement les gadgets pour enfants.

L’Internet des objets (IdO) devient rapidement partie intégrante de notre réalité car un plus grand nombre de nos objets du quotidien renferment maintenant de l’électronique, des logiciels, des capteurs ou sont capables de se connecter au réseau, leur permettant ainsi de recueillir et d’échanger des données. Combien de ces objets, pensez-vous alors, peuvent se transformer en vrais chevaux de Troie ? La guerre de Troie prit fin quand les Grecs firent preuve de malice pour entrer dans la ville de Troie, cachant des soldats dans un énorme cheval de bois. Les Grecs firent semblant d’embarquer sur leurs navires et de prendre le large tandis que les Troyens, peu méfiants, s’emparaient du cheval en signe de victoire, le faisant entrer dans la ville. Plus tard cette nuit-là, les Grecs sortirent tant bien que mal dudit cheval de bois et ouvrirent les portes de la ville au reste de l’armée grecque afin que cette dernière pénètre dans la ville et la détruise. Quels attaquants peuvent potentiellement surgir de vos cadeaux de Noël ?

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Let’s skip the part where we talk about how many fancy IoT devices people will have in 5 years. We can also skip the part where we talk about the benefits of these devices.

Why is it that these connected devices are being hacked over and over again?

The list below, while not exhaustive, explains some of the reasons why these new connected devices are so easy to hack and why we’re likely to see more hacks in the future.

1. MVP mindset
2. Usability > security
3. Lack of skills and resources
4. Ship and forget mindset
5. You (the user)
6. Complex supply chain
7. Cybercrime as a service

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Twenty years ago, if you told me my phone could be used to steal the password to my email account or to take a copy of my fingerprint data, I would’ve laughed at you and said you watch too much James Bond. But today, if you tell me that hackers with malicious intents can use my toaster to break into my Facebook account, I will panic and quickly pull the plug from the evil appliance.

What is evident is that the IoT will become an important part of our lives very soon, and its security is one of the major issues that must be addressed via active participation by the entire global tech community. Will we be able to harness this most-hyped, emerging technology that will undoubtedly revolutionize the world, or will we end up opening a Pandora’s Box that will spiral the world into a new age of mayhem and chaos? Let’s hope for the former.

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You may want to think twice before you install that security camera.

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Das Internet der Dinge, also die umfassende Vernetzung von Sensoren aller Art, birgt gravierende Sicherheitsrisiken. So könnte daraus bald das größte Botnetz aller Zeiten entstehen.
Das Internet der Dinge (Internet of Things, IoT) ist derzeit der vermutlich angesagteste Hype in der IT-Welt. Von der umfassenden Vernetzung von Endgeräten aller Art versprechen sich viele Manager neue Geschäftschancen. Nach Schätzungen der Experten von McKinsey führt das Internet der Dinge zu einem wirtschaftlichen Mehrwert von bis zu 1.100 Milliarden Dollar in den kommenden zehn Jahren. Aber wie sieht es mit der Sicherheit aus?

Angriffe über Thingbots: In den vergangenen Jahren gab es bereits mehrere Attacken auf IoT-Sensoren und -Geräte.
(Quelle: Globalsign ) Lea Toms, Regional Marketing Manager bei Globalsign, warnt vor gigantischen Netzwerken aus IoT-Sensoren, die von Angreifern zu Botnetzen verknüpft werden können, um beispielsweise kritische Infrastrukturen anzugreifen oder um Schadsoftware zu verbreiten. Sie nennt diese Netze „Thingbots“: „Je mehr das Internet der Dinge an Bedeutung gewinnt, desto mehr Geräte und Dinge sind potenziell gefährdet, Teil eines Thingbots werden.“

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