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We Need to Save the Internet from the Internet of Things

Brian Krebs is a popular reporter on the cybersecurity beat.He regularly exposes cybercriminals and their tactics, and consequently is regularly a target of their ire.Last month, he wrote about an online attack-for-hire service that resulted in the arrest of the two proprietors.

Internet of Things Getting a Boost from Telecommunications Giant – Mobile Marketing Watch

According to an announcement from the telecommunications giant on Thursday, AT&T is working with technology leaders to show how new LTE-M technology will bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to a new generation of devices and markets.AT&T plans to pilot the LTE-M network in the San Francisco market starting in November.We will launch the technology across our commercial LTE network in 2017.

the Internet of Things could spark a new wave of cyber attacks

The past few weeks have seen a remarkable and somewhat alarming development in cyber security.It comes in the wake of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that has forced a rethink of how we can deal with attacks of this nature in the future.The attack was aimed at the Krebs on Security website, a well established source of valuable information on cyber crime.