The risky things travelers do that compromise their cyber security

More than 40 million Americans are expected to travel this Memorial Day Weekend, according to AAA, and many of them are going to be gold mines for cyber criminals.

By 2021, damages tied to cyber crimes are expected to reach $6 trillion annually.

“When we think about the internet of things in general, these things are all now connected to the internet,” said Caleb Barlow, VP of X-Force Threat Intelligence for IBM (IBM).

“The simple way to look at it [is] if it connects to the internet, you have to have a way to update it in real time and keep it secure. For more manufacturers, it’s a big problem going forward,” Barlow said on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade.

By Nick Monte.

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