Members of Congress received a dire warning this week about security vulnerabilities in the so-called internet of things (IoT) Cyber experts cautioned that with billions of new devices coming online, coordinated hacking attacks could become — literally — a matter of life and death. House lawmakers convened a hearing on IoT security in response to last month’s distributed denial-of-service attack on the internet addressing provider Dyn. The attack was benign — a couple of websites went down. But it might only be a prelude to far more serious attacks with potentially catastrophic consequences in the physical world.”]
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