Gartner observed that in the past three years, nearly 20% of organisations have already observed cyberattacks on IoT devices in their network. IoT Analytics forecasts that globally the number of connected IoT devices will grow at 9% annually, reaching 27 billion IoT connections by 2025. Riding on this growth of connected devices is an increased … Read more
In 2013, the Bowman Avenue Dam in New York In December 2015, three utility companies in Ukraine became victims of BlackEnergy malware which targeted the firms’ supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. By the programmable logic controllers (PLC) The Stuxnet computer virus disrupted the Iranian nuclear program by damaging centrifuges used to separate nuclear … Read more
Access to low-cost, low-power sensor technology, the availability of high-speed connectivity, the increase in cloud adoption, and the growing use of data processing and analytics are among the key drivers boosting the deployment of IoT technologies. It also helps that smart city efforts continue to progress. As Asia comes out of the three-year economic slump … Read more
IDC predicts that by 2025, IoT spending in the Asia-Pacific region is predicted to reach US$437 billion. IDC Asia-Pacific adjunct research director, Bill Rojas, cites IoT adoption in industries like transportation, retail, manufacturing, resources, and utilities is driven in part by increased capacity and reliability of fibre and cellular network infrastructure. Source: Paessler Bill Rojas … Read more
The 2023 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report claims that IoT malware globally was up 37%, resulting in 77.9 million attacks compared to the 57 million attacks during the same period in 2022. The IoT malware attack volume in Asia rose to 23 million, up 130%. The Nokia 20203 Threat Intelligence Report claims that 60% of attacks … Read more
