Data Digest: IoT Vulnerabilities, Teen Cybersecurity Contest, Financial Impact of a Data Breach
An overlooked vulnerability in IoT devices, U.K. teenagers combat hackers, and the long-term financial fallout from data breaches.
- By Lindsay Stares
- July 18, 2017
A legacy communications protocol commonly used in Internet of Things devices can easily be manipulated to spy on (and even sabotage) connected equipment.
Read more at Dark Reading
A competition intended to inspire interest in cybersecurity set teenagers to defend a smart home against malicious hacking.
Read more at Information Age
New research from Comparitech.com finds that companies that suffer a major data breach underperform on the stock market for years.
Read more at Comparitech Blog
About the Author
Lindsay Stares is a production editor at TDWI. You can contact her here.