It only takes one successful cyber-attack to seriously hurt a company, so it’s shocking to see that UK businesses suffered, on average, almost 230,000 cyber-attacks in 2016. This is according to Beaming. The ISP says a third of attacks was targeting company databases, but two thirds were, in fact, attacking connected devices, such as security cameras or building control systems. Such devices can be controlled remotely, through the internet. The volume of attacks against IoT devices grew 310 percent in the first and final quarter of 2016, and by the end of the year, more than 90 percent of attacks were against…
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