Hacking your holiday: how cyber criminals are increasingly targeting the tourism market
- Written by Joe Burton, Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are up 16% in the last year.Shutterstock
Imagine if a hacker shut down the baggage handling system of one of the world’s busiest airports. Or took control of a fleet of autonomous delivery trucks and re-routed them to disrupt rush hour traffic in a major metropolis. What if the hacker then demanded...
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