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Cybersecurity and the Medical Field

The medical field has been targeted over the last few years for attacks. The focus has and continues to be the data being held. These attacks may take any of the many different forms of attack, dependent on the target’s equipment, configurations, and other factors. The data targeted by the attackers has value to them and for resale. A recent case directly involved this. UCSF experienced a successful attack on June 1, 2020 with their School of Medicine’s IT environment. While

Cybersecurity, Blockchain and Shipping Goods

Shipping goods and services can be a rather taxing process in its own right. If the product is smaller, and the contents are not on the warning list (e.g. dry ice, and lithium batteries), shipping is not a horrible task. With larger objects, this may be more of an interesting chore and task to including the crating, insurance needs, and other forms to complete. Adding a layer of complexity for this would involve international shipping or importing and exporting these. There a

Cybersecurity and Automation

Industrial automation systems vulnerable >>> Nearly all the products we purchase are processed by automated systems. If these were to stop working, or workflow maliciously adjusted, there would be a clear issue immediately as the products were assembled incorrectly or broken during the “adjusted” process. While this potential to wreck our way of life if implemented on a large scale, there has not been a sufficient amount of attention paid to it. Recently, a new vulnerability

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