#BITDEFENDER BOX 2 INSTALL#

IoT devices do not have the processing power to run antivirus software, and some manufacturers are even so lax as to hardwire in an administrator username and password. 2016 saw the first large-scale use by hackers of a botnet made up of infected home devices in an attack that brought down the entire internet for millions of Americans on the eastern sea-board, so it is about time we took security for the Internet of Things (IoT) more seriously.

#BITDEFENDER BOX 2 INSTALL#

Many people do not run antivirus at all on their smartphone or tablet, and a majority of Mac users think they are safe from viruses and malware thanks to some misleading ad campaigns from Apple over the last decade.Īn increasing number of us have also started to install connected speakers, televisions, light-bulbs, thermostats, and other devices to our home networks – items which are increasingly becoming targets for hackers. Keeping your operating system, antivirus, and other software up-to-date should keep most people’s laptops reasonably well protected, but not every device has such tight security. Whilst the scale of these issues have made them frontpage news, they represent only a tiny fraction of the security threats facing internet users every day. Most people already know to install antivirus software as soon as they get a new laptop before they become a soft target for hackers, but as we fill our homes with an ever-wider variety of internet-connected devices, we need to start looking at protecting our entire home networks rather than just individual devices.Ĭybersecurity has made the headlines across the world in recent months, with organisations from the NHS to FedX infected by ransomeware, and news that nearly that the CPUs in nearly all laptops and smartphones are vulnerable to attack because of the Spectre and Meltdown bugs.

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