On Friday, a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) has previously paralyzed the pages of PayPal, Spotify, Amazon, Twitter and other providers. According to first analyzes, networked devices, especially cameras and digital video recorder, have been used to attack the web service provider Dyn. This makes it clear that maybe data protection is – in German: Internet of Things – In theory, all of hackers connected to the Internet can become manipulated and thus become a weapon, whether a baby monitor or refrigerator. At least in Germany, the infrastructure necessary for such a threat, according to a Deloitte survey, may still be expanded. Accordingly, the spread of IoT consumer hardware in this country is unchanged, as our graphic today shows.
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