Top Hacks and Cybersecurity Breaches of 2018
Aadhar
The Aadhar data breach affected 1.1 billion people. The Indian government’s ID database keeps a record of the citizen’s identity and biometric info. The database suffered a major leak in which the private information of Indian residents, including their names, bank account information, and ID numbers, was stolen. The data leak surfaced on a system run by the utility company Indane. The company hadn’t secured their API.
The exact date of the data breach could not be determined, but the breach was discovered in March of 2018.
Marriott Starwood Hotels
500 million people suffered at the hands of this data breach. The guest information included email addresses, passport numbers, reservation dates and phone numbers along with payment card numbers and their expiration dates. The hackers were able to gain access to the reservation database of Marriott Starwood Hotels. After that, they copied and stole all the information. This all started in 2014 but the breach wasn’t discovered until September 2018.
Exactis
The Exactis data breach affected 340 million people. The company compiles data on millions of people and businesses, and the data includes everything from their personal information, phone numbers, and addresses to interests and specific characteristics.
The data breach occurred in June 2018 and was discovered when a security expert came across a publicly accessible database that had almost every US citizen in it. It still remains vague whether any hacker was able to access that information or not.
Quora
The account information of 100 million people was compromised. It included names, emails addresses and encrypted passwords, users’ public questions and answers, and the data from the accounts linked to Quora. The data breach was carried out by a malicious third-party that accessed one of Quora’s systems. It was discovered in November 2018.
MyHeritage
92 million people were affected from this data breach in which email addresses, along with encrypted passwords of the signed-up users, were stolen and put on a private server outside the company. The data breach occurred in October 2017.
Cambridge Analytica
87 million people suffered because of the Cambridge Analytica data leak in which Facebook profiles and other data that assists in identifying users’ interests and preferences were stolen. The breach occurred in 2015.
Here is what happened: A professor from the University of Cambridge developed a personality prediction app called thisisyourdigitallife. The app passed user information to third parties, including Cambridge Analytica. This is the same firm that helped the presidential campaign of Donald Trump via targeted ads creation while using the voter data of millions of people.
Although only 270,000 Facebook users installed the app on their phones, because of the former data-sharing policies of Facebook, the app was able to collect data on millions of their friends as well.
Google
The Google data breach affected 52.5 million users, leaking the private information on their Google+ profiles, including their name, email address, date of birth, age, relationship status, employer and job title. The breach occurred from 2015 till March 2018 and then from November 7 to 13.
At the beginning of the year, Google made it public that it would shut down Google+ after a report from Wall Street Journal surfaced exposing a software glitch that led Google to reveal the personal profile data of 500,000 Google+ users. Later, in December, Google again announced that it had suffered another data breach that affected 52.5 million users. Google has now decided to shut down Google+ permanently in April 2019.
Aadhar
The Aadhar data breach affected 1.1 billion people. The Indian government’s ID database keeps a record of the citizen’s identity and biometric info. The database suffered a major leak in which the private information of Indian residents, including their names, bank account information, and ID numbers, was stolen. The data leak surfaced on a system run by the utility company Indane. The company hadn’t secured their API.
The exact date of the data breach could not be determined, but the breach was discovered in March of 2018.
Marriott Starwood Hotels
500 million people suffered at the hands of this data breach. The guest information included email addresses, passport numbers, reservation dates and phone numbers along with payment card numbers and their expiration dates. The hackers were able to gain access to the reservation database of Marriott Starwood Hotels. After that, they copied and stole all the information. This all started in 2014 but the breach wasn’t discovered until September 2018.
Exactis
The Exactis data breach affected 340 million people. The company compiles data on millions of people and businesses, and the data includes everything from their personal information, phone numbers, and addresses to interests and specific characteristics.
The data breach occurred in June 2018 and was discovered when a security expert came across a publicly accessible database that had almost every US citizen in it. It still remains vague whether any hacker was able to access that information or not.
Quora
The account information of 100 million people was compromised. It included names, emails addresses and encrypted passwords, users’ public questions and answers, and the data from the accounts linked to Quora. The data breach was carried out by a malicious third-party that accessed one of Quora’s systems. It was discovered in November 2018.
MyHeritage
92 million people were affected from this data breach in which email addresses, along with encrypted passwords of the signed-up users, were stolen and put on a private server outside the company. The data breach occurred in October 2017.
Cambridge Analytica
87 million people suffered because of the Cambridge Analytica data leak in which Facebook profiles and other data that assists in identifying users’ interests and preferences were stolen. The breach occurred in 2015.
Here is what happened: A professor from the University of Cambridge developed a personality prediction app called thisisyourdigitallife. The app passed user information to third parties, including Cambridge Analytica. This is the same firm that helped the presidential campaign of Donald Trump via targeted ads creation while using the voter data of millions of people.
Although only 270,000 Facebook users installed the app on their phones, because of the former data-sharing policies of Facebook, the app was able to collect data on millions of their friends as well.
The Google data breach affected 52.5 million users, leaking the private information on their Google+ profiles, including their name, email address, date of birth, age, relationship status, employer and job title. The breach occurred from 2015 till March 2018 and then from November 7 to 13.
At the beginning of the year, Google made it public that it would shut down Google+ after a report from Wall Street Journal surfaced exposing a software glitch that led Google to reveal the personal profile data of 500,000 Google+ users. Later, in December, Google again announced that it had suffered another data breach that affected 52.5 million users. Google has now decided to shut down Google+ permanently in April 2019.
Plug & Play Best Practices for Wireless IoT Deployments
Few IoT solutions are truly plug-and-play.
Many IoT deployments are technically difficult and error-prone. Apple provides us with a blueprint for creating truly plug-and-play platforms. IoT developers and service providers should design their solutions according to Apple's methodology.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/SJryen_NN
Few IoT solutions are truly plug-and-play.
Many IoT deployments are technically difficult and error-prone. Apple provides us with a blueprint for creating truly plug-and-play platforms. IoT developers and service providers should design their solutions according to Apple's methodology.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/SJryen_NN
Putting AI to Work in Healthcare: Turning Data into Action
There’s no shortage of statistics, surveys and industry hype that have espoused the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) within healthcare. AI already plays a significant role in our daily lives. Healthcare may be one of the spaces in which AI can most impact our daily existence. Nonetheless, we're only just beginning to scratch the surface of what AI could do for healthcare services.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/HkCO3DtVV
There’s no shortage of statistics, surveys and industry hype that have espoused the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) within healthcare. AI already plays a significant role in our daily lives. Healthcare may be one of the spaces in which AI can most impact our daily existence. Nonetheless, we're only just beginning to scratch the surface of what AI could do for healthcare services.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/HkCO3DtVV
Machine Learning Applications in the Internet of Things
There's a lot of hype and buzz around machine learning and IoT. Here are some machine learning applications in IoT that are actually out in the world today.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/H1g3pvYVV
There's a lot of hype and buzz around machine learning and IoT. Here are some machine learning applications in IoT that are actually out in the world today.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/H1g3pvYVV
8 Reasons Why You Need To Embrace IIoT
IIoT refers to an industrial connectivity system connecting all elements of the sector (machines, people, buildings, etc.) to create a totally new paradigm. Now is a better time than ever to leverage IIoT solutions.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/r1mdLvjNN
IIoT refers to an industrial connectivity system connecting all elements of the sector (machines, people, buildings, etc.) to create a totally new paradigm. Now is a better time than ever to leverage IIoT solutions.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/r1mdLvjNN
2019 Cloud and IoT Trends in the Industrial Products Market
Cloud services and solutions continue to evolve. Increases are predicted for the coming year, with public cloud platforms growing faster than private cloud applications. Security will continue to be an issue, and digital twinning will be an everyday thing.
As cloud services and solutions evolve, so does consumer demand. Increases are predicted once again for the coming new year, with public cloud platforms growing faster than private cloud applications.
The last year helped to set the pace for this development: in the second quarter of 2018, Amazon’s cloud business grew nearly 48.9 percent, generating $6.11 billion in revenue. In July, it was reported that the Google Cloud division as a whole had grown rapidly, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai highlighting several major new customers. IBM also reported in July that cloud revenue—including hardware, software, and services for hybrid, public, and private cloud solutions—had generated $18.5 billion year over year, up 23 percent.
Microsoft is also on the rise; in October, the company reported that commercial cloud revenue, including Azure sales, hit $8.5 billion, up 47 percent from the year-ago quarter. The growth margin for that business rose to 62 percent from 58 percent in the year-ago quarter and 59 percent in the prior quarter.
While the big cloud providers are offering a wider range of tools and services to help drive this growth, users will still need internal/external cloud expertise—beyond the public providers—to implement their own IoT systems. This will drive the need for hybrid cloud solutions and contribute to the blurring of cloud usage across edge, public, and private solutions.
Industrial Products Lead IoT Platform Adoption
2019 will become the year that enterprise companies dive head-first into IoT. Forrester reports that industrial products will lead all industries in IoT adoption at 45 percent with an additional 22 percent planning to adopt IoT in the next 12 months. According to Forbes, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is predicted to reach $123B in 2021, attaining a CAGR of 7.3 percent through 2020. This will give executives the ability to analyze large quantities of industry and/or products-specific data and use that information for business intelligence and decision-making.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will also come into play, with IT executives opening up data that was formally siloed, enabling enterprises to derive informed insight on everything from product maintenance and development to daily operations.
IoT Security Issues Keep IT Executives on Their Toes
With IoT and cloud platform adoption on the rise, security will continue to be a concern. By 2020, more than 25 percent of security breaches in the industrial enterprise will involve IoT, according to Gartner. However, the same study reporters that IoT will account for less than 10 percent of IT security budgets.
IP-based connectivity is one of the challenges here, because of its necessity for communication across multiple devices and the inherent security risks. The use of sophisticated microprocessors in industrial equipment will play a role and also make the industrial equipment space a vulnerable target.
Although technology exists to make end-point devices secure, it will not be adopted universally, especially by low-cost manufacturers who want to sell equipment. Expect to see distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continuing through 2019, and don’t be surprised when you see cloud-side accounts hacked and used to mine cryptocurrency or something similar on someone else’s cloud budget.
IT executives will need to be on their toes. They must plan for these attacks before they happen by adopting the technology necessary to encrypt and keep data safe.
Cloud services and solutions continue to evolve. Increases are predicted for the coming year, with public cloud platforms growing faster than private cloud applications. Security will continue to be an issue, and digital twinning will be an everyday thing.
As cloud services and solutions evolve, so does consumer demand. Increases are predicted once again for the coming new year, with public cloud platforms growing faster than private cloud applications.
The last year helped to set the pace for this development: in the second quarter of 2018, Amazon’s cloud business grew nearly 48.9 percent, generating $6.11 billion in revenue. In July, it was reported that the Google Cloud division as a whole had grown rapidly, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai highlighting several major new customers. IBM also reported in July that cloud revenue—including hardware, software, and services for hybrid, public, and private cloud solutions—had generated $18.5 billion year over year, up 23 percent.
Microsoft is also on the rise; in October, the company reported that commercial cloud revenue, including Azure sales, hit $8.5 billion, up 47 percent from the year-ago quarter. The growth margin for that business rose to 62 percent from 58 percent in the year-ago quarter and 59 percent in the prior quarter.
While the big cloud providers are offering a wider range of tools and services to help drive this growth, users will still need internal/external cloud expertise—beyond the public providers—to implement their own IoT systems. This will drive the need for hybrid cloud solutions and contribute to the blurring of cloud usage across edge, public, and private solutions.
Industrial Products Lead IoT Platform Adoption
2019 will become the year that enterprise companies dive head-first into IoT. Forrester reports that industrial products will lead all industries in IoT adoption at 45 percent with an additional 22 percent planning to adopt IoT in the next 12 months. According to Forbes, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is predicted to reach $123B in 2021, attaining a CAGR of 7.3 percent through 2020. This will give executives the ability to analyze large quantities of industry and/or products-specific data and use that information for business intelligence and decision-making.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will also come into play, with IT executives opening up data that was formally siloed, enabling enterprises to derive informed insight on everything from product maintenance and development to daily operations.
IoT Security Issues Keep IT Executives on Their Toes
With IoT and cloud platform adoption on the rise, security will continue to be a concern. By 2020, more than 25 percent of security breaches in the industrial enterprise will involve IoT, according to Gartner. However, the same study reporters that IoT will account for less than 10 percent of IT security budgets.
IP-based connectivity is one of the challenges here, because of its necessity for communication across multiple devices and the inherent security risks. The use of sophisticated microprocessors in industrial equipment will play a role and also make the industrial equipment space a vulnerable target.
Although technology exists to make end-point devices secure, it will not be adopted universally, especially by low-cost manufacturers who want to sell equipment. Expect to see distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continuing through 2019, and don’t be surprised when you see cloud-side accounts hacked and used to mine cryptocurrency or something similar on someone else’s cloud budget.
IT executives will need to be on their toes. They must plan for these attacks before they happen by adopting the technology necessary to encrypt and keep data safe.
Industrial Factories Build Digital Twins to Monitor Factory Floors in Real Time
B2B IoT and 3D modelling, also called digital twinning technology, is finally moving away from phenomenon status into everyday life. As the modelling trend matures, manufacturers are looking closely at unique ways to adopt this technology while pushing for a “digitally connected” factory floor.
Digital twinning is a new phenomenon in the world of manufacturing that lets operators build a 3D model of a facility and superimpose real-time sensor data on that model. This is where virtual modelling meets IoT and digital twinning comes to life. Real-time sensor data is mapped onto a 3D model of the facility, and visual clues are provided to allow the user to easily visualize what is happening.
Digital twinning is taking shape in the virtual world; up to 85 percent of IoT platforms will contain some form of this technology by 2022, according to Orbis Research. AI plays a big role here as well and will find wide adoption in machine learning algorithms used for things like predictive maintenance, factory floor design, machinery usage analysis and much more.
Leading the Way in 2019
The insights above and industry statistics all point to the industrial products sector leading the way in IoT and cloud platform adoption in 2019. From public cloud implementations to the ongoing use of hybrid solutions, industrial products manufacturers will harness the power of IoT to monitor assets in real time while collecting important data in the cloud for informed business intelligence. These industries will be the ones to watch in the coming year.
B2B IoT and 3D modelling, also called digital twinning technology, is finally moving away from phenomenon status into everyday life. As the modelling trend matures, manufacturers are looking closely at unique ways to adopt this technology while pushing for a “digitally connected” factory floor.
Digital twinning is a new phenomenon in the world of manufacturing that lets operators build a 3D model of a facility and superimpose real-time sensor data on that model. This is where virtual modelling meets IoT and digital twinning comes to life. Real-time sensor data is mapped onto a 3D model of the facility, and visual clues are provided to allow the user to easily visualize what is happening.
Digital twinning is taking shape in the virtual world; up to 85 percent of IoT platforms will contain some form of this technology by 2022, according to Orbis Research. AI plays a big role here as well and will find wide adoption in machine learning algorithms used for things like predictive maintenance, factory floor design, machinery usage analysis and much more.
Leading the Way in 2019
The insights above and industry statistics all point to the industrial products sector leading the way in IoT and cloud platform adoption in 2019. From public cloud implementations to the ongoing use of hybrid solutions, industrial products manufacturers will harness the power of IoT to monitor assets in real time while collecting important data in the cloud for informed business intelligence. These industries will be the ones to watch in the coming year.
The Value of Smart Parking Systems
Smart cities need smart parking, and urban citizens need somewhere to leave their car without having to walk an unreasonable distance to their destination. The future of smart parking systems will allow us all to make the most of available spots while vastly improving the efficiency of parking management for both drivers and the agencies that control this vital city resource.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/H1g3pvYVV
Smart cities need smart parking, and urban citizens need somewhere to leave their car without having to walk an unreasonable distance to their destination. The future of smart parking systems will allow us all to make the most of available spots while vastly improving the efficiency of parking management for both drivers and the agencies that control this vital city resource.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/H1g3pvYVV
Where Do Wearables Fit into the Internet of Things?
IoT devices have not fully penetrated consumers’ daily lives with wearable devices. However, wearable technology has a bright future in healthcare with the passive monitoring of vital statistics.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/rJ0feW34V
IoT devices have not fully penetrated consumers’ daily lives with wearable devices. However, wearable technology has a bright future in healthcare with the passive monitoring of vital statistics.
Full article: https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/rJ0feW34V
Smart Farming: The Future of Agriculture
IoT devices have not fully penetrated consumers’ daily lives with wearable devices. However, wearable technology has a bright future in healthcare with the passive monitoring of vital statistics.
Full article:https://telegra.ph/Smart-Farming-The-Future-of-Agriculture-02-13
IoT devices have not fully penetrated consumers’ daily lives with wearable devices. However, wearable technology has a bright future in healthcare with the passive monitoring of vital statistics.
Full article:https://telegra.ph/Smart-Farming-The-Future-of-Agriculture-02-13
IoT in Agriculture
Anonymous Poll
94%
Yes, it's really future
6%
Need wait a few more years, because IoT it's not stable techology
The Internet of Wine: From Agtech to Smart Cellars
IoT solutions can help winegrowers and winemakers control environmental variables and gain more insight into the production process, thereby enhancing both their bottom line and the end product. Needless to say, IoT applications in the winemaking business are still in the early stages of development.
Full article: https://telegra.ph/The-Internet-of-Wine-From-Agtech-to-Smart-Cellars-02-13
IoT solutions can help winegrowers and winemakers control environmental variables and gain more insight into the production process, thereby enhancing both their bottom line and the end product. Needless to say, IoT applications in the winemaking business are still in the early stages of development.
Full article: https://telegra.ph/The-Internet-of-Wine-From-Agtech-to-Smart-Cellars-02-13
Networking 215+ Smart Home Devices
This post details problems homeowners face when trying to make their home a smart one. With so many wireless technologies, there’s a lot to learn in order to be able to tackle this big task.
Full article: https://telegra.ph/Networking-215-Smart-Home-Devices-02-13
This post details problems homeowners face when trying to make their home a smart one. With so many wireless technologies, there’s a lot to learn in order to be able to tackle this big task.
Full article: https://telegra.ph/Networking-215-Smart-Home-Devices-02-13
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Globalization 4.0: Building a Hyper-Connected World through IoT
The main focus of Globalization 4.0 is to bring the world together. For a truly globalized world, data analysis and connectivity have to be efficient. Thus, IoT continues to shape our future fundamentally.
Full article - https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/ByhBoTMSV
The main focus of Globalization 4.0 is to bring the world together. For a truly globalized world, data analysis and connectivity have to be efficient. Thus, IoT continues to shape our future fundamentally.
Full article - https://teletype.in/@vasylzelinskiy/ByhBoTMSV
