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Europol warning on the risks related to the Internet of Everything (IoE)

  • October 6, 2014
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By Pierluigi Paganini on October 6th, 2014 http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ioe-2.png  

The European Police Office (Europol) confirmed that difficulties to face the menaces of cybercrimes to the Internet of Everything (IoE).

The EU’s chief criminal intelligence agency made a disconcerting revelation, the threat of “online murder” is set to rise. It isn’t a science movie trailer, but the finding that cyber criminals increasingly targeting victims with internet technology that could cause injury and possible deathsby hacking critical safety equipment.
According to the European Police Office (Europol) the rapid diffusion of the paradigm of the ‘Internet of Everything’ (IoE) is stressing the dependency of human activities from a large number of devices always connected to the Internet and with significant computational capability.
 
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Good article Jeff, this is quite alarming where these criminals could hack into life saving equipment and cause harm and injury.

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