A massive cyberattack on a company rerouting Internet traffic disrupted several leading websites in the United States on Friday, raising fresh concerns about cybersecurity.
But Friday’s attack was just one of the several kinds of attacks that take place around the world with alarming regularity, exposing private information and putting software programs, financial assets, relationships, and digital devices at risk.
As dependence on the Internet to operate electronic devices grows, user vulnerability to all sorts of electronic crimes including hacking also increases.
Sitting thousands of miles away, these techies-turned-hackers may have access to your data and fleece your money and precious personal and business information. Even an efficient system of criminal justice alone would not be able to provide a solution to electronic crimes.
Analysts now believe that only a better and safe software and technology could counter the challenge of maintaining digital security.
Researchers across the globe are trying to evolve a cogent solution to this ever increasing problem as 50 billion electronic devices are all set to be connected to the Internet in next five years.
A Dutch IT company, SME Intrinsic-ID based in the city of Eindhoven is aiming to embed electronic chips containing a unique identifier into every device connected to the net.
“What we are working on is a device-fingerprinting technology,” Intrinsic-ID’s business development director Vincent van der Leest told Euro News.
“It is similar to human fingerprints, human biometrics. (By this) we are able to uniquely identify each individual device.
Further, explaining Leest said: “We need this technology because every day more and more devices are getting connected to the Internet. Pretty soon there will be up to 50 billion devices which will be connected to the ‘internet of things.’
According to the Dutch researchers, the chip fingerprints have been designed to be impossible to duplicate, clone or predict.
The research , if leads to development of some solution to one of the biggest challenges of the century, may be a source of relief for people living from Lahore to Los Angeles.
