21st Century Learning and Teaching

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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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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