Despite the economic disruption of the current COVID-19 pandemic, outlook for the IoT market remains cautiously optimistic. IoT Analytics recently revised its two-year-old prediction, raising the number of IoT-connected devices from 21.5 billion to 30.9 billion globally by 2025. Indeed, the research firm cited that for the first time in 2020 In 2020, for the … Read more
Companies are being warned that malicious hackers are using a novel technique to break into businesses – by pretending to offer audits of the company’s cybersecurity. With ransomware and other cybersecurity threats high in the mind of many business owners, it is all too easy to imagine how many companies might react positively to an … Read more
In December the CJEU issued the judgment in the Ford Italia case (C-157/23), which focused on the scope of the notion of an apparent producer, that is a person presenting themselves as a producer by putting their name, trade mark or another distinguishing feature on a consumer product, pursuant to Article 3(1) of the old Product … Read more
Network anomalies and attacks were the most prevalent threat to OT and IoT environments in the second half of 2023, increasing 19% over the previous reporting period. Included here was a 230% surge in vulnerabilities within critical manufacturing. The latest Nozomi Networks Labs OT & IoT Security Report revealed that “network scans” topped the list … Read more
We live in an age where crises seem to be everywhere. But what do we mean by a “crisis”? Miguel de Beistegui examines how we make sense of crises and explains why we should be cautious about the idea that crisis has become the general, permanent state of the world. Following the collapse of the … Read more