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Shutterstock Back in October, a piece of malware called Mirai was used to essentially crash the entire internet. It was traced back to the increasingly worrying Internet of Things, the giant pile of stuff we all own that increasingly connects to the internet, apparently for the sole purpose of collecting data on us, including how […]

Wind River announced the availability of a software-virtualization platform enabling critical-infrastructure companies to cost-effectively evolve aging legacy control systems not designed to support the connected nature of IoT. Wind River Titanium Control empowers the next generation of on-premise analytics to optimize industrial processes.  “ARC believes the influx of new IIoT technologies now entering the automation market

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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is used in many businesses, including critical infrastructure sectors such as energy, utilities, government, healthcare and finance. No surprise then that it’s a likely target for attack. A new survey from security and compliance specialist Tripwire of more than 400 IT security professionals shows that 96 percent expect to