The kinds of technologies that are threatening your systems are becoming more and more common. Sure, technology is advancing, but so are the criminal elements that threaten your security.
When companies are becoming infested by cybersecurity breaches by the day, it is important to understand their nature. Here are some of the emerging technologies that might threaten your security:
1. Deep Fakes
Let’s start with the one that has gained the most traction. Deep Fakes are becoming the most prominent security threats at present and possibly for the forseeable future, and criminal elements are getting better at it by the day. Despite constant efforts by powerful bodies to eliminate deep fakes from the internet, there is only so much that can actually be done.
Essentially using niche morphing tools, deepfakes can surprisingly make one believe that a morphed video or image of a renowned person is real. You might have seen a fake or a morphed picture or video of a renowned person, only for them to claim that they never recorded that footage.
Consequently, many government bodies, organisations, and IT services have adopted stricter and more efficient tools to tackle the brunt of this threat. So fret not, for concentrated measures to get rid of deepfakes are also starting to emerge.
2. Cloud Jacking
You guessed it right – Hacking or infiltration of the cloud computing capabilities of a body, no matter the scale, is called cloud jacking. Cloud jacking has been notorious for affecting all kinds of office spaces, mainly because all devices are connected to the same cloud. This can be used to obtain sensitive information from the members who are connected to the cloud, or commit even worse crimes.
This is why it becomes so important to use a good cybersecurity solution. Whether you need a small office security solution, or an enterprise scale one—cloud jacking is no joke. Ensure to have the maximum amount of protection to prevent leakage of data or sensitive information.
3. Malware on Mobile Devices
With mobile devices becoming as powerful as desktops, folks are shifting to working off their handhelds too. And since work is shifting to mobile devices, so are cyber-attacks.
Irrespective of how big a company is, mobile malware is a tricky area. After all, what might appear like a nice and friendly app can be more than just detrimental.
Fortunately, right from the greatest cybersecurity software company to the newest kid on the block—everyone has made malware detection and eradication a priority.
Mobile devices are prone to more security threats because of how open-ended they can be. Think about it, there are rarely any checks done across app stores. Even if there were, they are really not very effective, since many sketchy apps can still make their way onto these storefronts.
4. Internet of Things
Speaking of handheld devices, the idea of a ‘Device Ecosystem’ is becoming a thing nowadays. Think about it, your phone is connected to your watch, laptop— even your TV! Internet of Things precisely refers to that. The fact that all your devices communicate with each other, and then to the internet, is what constitutes IoT.
This is where IoT takes a notorious turn. If someone gets valid access to any of your devices, it is theoretically possible to relay that to a third party. As a consequence, it is possible that all your devices are breached one at a time. Worst case scenario – All at once.
You can mitigate this by obviously enabling stronger security measures across all your devices. Be it strengthening your passwords, or even acquiring antivirus solutions across all your devices, you can be efficient enough to avoid such issues.
5. Machine Learning Poisoning
Machine Learning has become a very important tech segment in society— hear us out. ML essentially obtains datasets from a major demographic, say in the case of social media, or from media marketing sources. Do you see what we are hinting at?
Turns our Machine Learning poisoning can be rather detrimental. Not only can user-generated content be misconstrued to exploit attributes like user ratings and reviews, but criminal elements can get access to your personal data too.
With social media, shopping metrics, and anything in between having shifted to online markets, ML poisoning is now a growing threat to security.
Final Word
In terms of tech advances, with great power, we have seen a greater rise in irresponsibility too. Technology breaches are becoming ubiquitous, and this is why you need to always be vigilant and fall back on safe internet practices.
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