We’ve all used pocket-sized USB drives to store and transfer data. We’ve also lost them countless times. USB sticks are a necessary convenience accompanied by complex and varied risks. Besides the loss of the actual ”pendrives” as they’re also known, organizations fall prey to targeted USB attacks, which are quite common. Threats designed for USB exploits have risen from 37% to 52%, according to Honeywell’s Industrial Cybersecurity USB Threat Report 2022.
Keeping up with threats is an ongoing problem in the constantly changing field of cybersecurity. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into cybersecurity is emerging as a vital roadmap for future-proofing cybersecurity, especially as organizations depend more and more on digital twins to mimic and optimize their physical counterparts.
Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at three types of cyberattacks that are predicted to be prevalent in 2024. If there’s one thing we can be certain of, it’s that we will never ever be safe from cyberthreats. That is why we need to prepare ourselves for the onslaught of cybercrime that is about to hit us this new year.