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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

For at least the last five years — futurists and smart technology boosters have been touting the inevitable rise of the smart city. As of today, those attacks have led to cities finding their technology held hostage via ransomware and paying large sums to either free their data or rebuild their systems to lock out the attackers.

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MAY 2, 2016

Provenzano, who oversees operations at M and T Bank Stadium, the home of the National Football League’s Baltimore Ravens, and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the home of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles, remembers the first time he saw the IoT make an impact for professional sports and stadiums.

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MAY 13, 2019

The city of Baltimore fell victim to a ransomware attack last week , as researchers began to dive into the risks of local-level government systems. Cyber experts at Onapsis said last week that 1 million SAP systems were found to be vulnerable to hacking as a result of a security flaw. Zero utilities in the U.S.

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APRIL 29, 2016

While athletic venues of yesteryear may have offered fans little more beyond the games themselves, stadiums of the present – and future – are veritable hotbeds of technological sophistication. Of course, professional sports isn’t the only industry intent on harnessing the many possibilities of IoT technology.

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JUNE 21, 2019

In Florida, The New York Times reported on Thursday (June 20), government officials of Riviera Beach voted to pay nearly $600,000 worth of ransom to hackers, just weeks after Baltimore paid $18 million for a similarly crippling ransomware cyberattack against government systems. In The UK, Too.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Online ads that are so personal they feel creepy — an ad related to a TV show you just watched, or an aggressive pitch for weight loss products that follows a brief web search for a new gym — have taught consumers about the power of personalized marketing technology. One recent survey found that 78 percent of U.S. Healthcare Concerns.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But as a recent Google announcement demonstrated, FIs are engaging with technology players in new ways as together, they seek to create ecosystems that offer new value to consumers. But will consumers trust Google to keep their bank account information private and secure, and within the circle of trust between them and their banks?

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