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This is a 32 hour IoT Hackathon held at progress software company at ilabs on July 23rd and 24th. The event started @ 10A.M. The event main focus is laid on the connected devices. At first Harsha Bandaru started the event with the introduction to Open Source followed by Mozilla. Later the session is handled by the Harsha Vardhan followed by the Skype session with the Dietrich where he shared about his insights and what the Mozilla is doing and how we can build the smart things with the connected devices.
Then we had a Skype session with Dietrich head of connected devices at Mozilla Dietrich, spoke about how connected devices are going to change the world &mozilla’s mission towards connected devices. Then we had a question and answer session and Dietrich wished our participants & boosted them up. Later Kalayan discussed about importance of security & privacy in connected world & spoke about IOT risks, Cyber threats & security challenges . He also discussed about how our wearable devices collect huge amount of personal data as well as the surrounding environment information, which can be easily disclosed to third parties & how threat actors adopt sophisticated TTPs . One of the first under attack case was observed by Proofpoint where cyber criminals sent bursts of 100,000 three times per day, targeting enterprises and individuals worldwide,more than a lakh refrigerators ,smart Tv’s and other smart household appliances have been hacked !!! Showing how IoT is dramatically enlarging our attack surface, he also came up with the set of solutions on how to minimize these vulnerabilities :)
At the end we announced the winners and runners of the event. And the Winner is awarded with the Mozilla Flame Device and awarded by Managing director of Progress Software this is followed by speeches from the guests of the event .
This is a 32 hour IoT Hackathon held at progress software company at ilabs on July 23rd and 24th. The event started @ 10A.M. The event main focus is laid on the connected devices. At first Harsha Bandaru started the event with the introduction to Open Source followed by Mozilla. Later the session is handled by the Harsha Vardhan followed by the Skype session with the Dietrich where he shared about his insights and what the Mozilla is doing and how we can build the smart things with the connected devices.
Then we had a Skype session with Dietrich head of connected devices at Mozilla Dietrich, spoke about how connected devices are going to change the world &mozilla’s mission towards connected devices. Then we had a question and answer session and Dietrich wished our participants & boosted them up. Later Kalayan discussed about importance of security & privacy in connected world & spoke about IOT risks, Cyber threats & security challenges . He also discussed about how our wearable devices collect huge amount of personal data as well as the surrounding environment information, which can be easily disclosed to third parties & how threat actors adopt sophisticated TTPs . One of the first under attack case was observed by Proofpoint where cyber criminals sent bursts of 100,000 three times per day, targeting enterprises and individuals worldwide,more than a lakh refrigerators ,smart Tv’s and other smart household appliances have been hacked !!! Showing how IoT is dramatically enlarging our attack surface, he also came up with the set of solutions on how to minimize these vulnerabilities :)
At the end we announced the winners and runners of the event. And the Winner is awarded with the Mozilla Flame Device and awarded by Managing director of Progress Software this is followed by speeches from the guests of the event .
