Tech Tip: Does more connectivity mean more vulnerability?
Takeaway: Find out if more connectivity means more vulnerability. By Jonathan Yarden These days, so many information security and privacy issues are cropping up that it’s becoming difficult to decide what to write about. And the majority of these issues deal with the Internet. The Internet is not getting smaller by any stretch, and it continues to expand, encompassing an increasing variety of products, both consumer and commercial. On the Internet, anything goes. If a host has vulnerabilities, it’s only a matter of time before someone abuses or exploits the flaws. Areas of the world are now online, as well as new devices, that previously had no connection to the Internet. And they’re often running unmaintained systems that are in grave need of updating and securing. At any given time, there are thousands of port scans running, identifying hosts and services running on these systems. Some of these are automated port scans, and some of them are probably unreleased worms looking for targe
