Here Is a Cheery Observation: Everything Is Hackable
March 2, 2020
We noted Vineet Kumar’s observations about security. “From Needle to Airplane, Everything Is Hackable, Says India’s Leading Cybersecurity Guru” includes this statement:
Every industry is hackable today. From the needle to the airplane, everything is hackable today. Smart technology penetration into organizations and even into homes leaves everyone susceptible to hacking.
Is there a fix?
Yep, embrace Mr. Kumar’s Cyber Peace Foundation.
What’s the outfit deliver?
Cyber Peace Foundation is a leading multi-stakeholders initiative and is crowdsourcing cybersecurity needs for civil society. The organization has over 12,000 members and 1,200 volunteers, from different parts of the world. It engages in spreading awareness and promoting technical research and in bringing together the government, industry experts, and academia.
There’s also a conference and a global cyber challenge:
Throwing light on the need for safer cyberspace: There are different ways and means through which your data can be stolen. By just clicking on one link, all your date can be gone and you may not even realize that your data is gone.
If everything is hackable, presumably his conference registration and its other Web forms are security risks. Odd that he did not emphasize the security of his operation, its bug bounty hunters, and it ethical hackers exempt from his glittering generality about “everything.”
Gurus are exempt perhaps?
Stephen E Arnold, March 2, 2020
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