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Daily Dashboard | Massive DDoS attack means IoT design is national security imperative Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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Sophisticated cyberattacks were launched against a Domain Name Service provider last Friday, effectively taking down a vast swath of websites in the U.S. The culprit appears to be a Distributed Denial of Service attack launched through weakly protected internet-of-things devices, including webcams and DVRs. The attacks demonstrate a massive new vulnerability, not only to the global digital economy, but to the critical infrastructures of any nation in the world. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, looks into last week's events and contends attacks such as these mean designing privacy and security protections into IoT devices is no longer just about maintaining brand reputation and staying out of regulatory crosshairs, it's now a national security imperative.
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