# Attacks on the Internet of Things devices

No doubt the potential value in the Internet of Things or IoT is emormous; and the market is expected to grow in the coming years. If the internet of things is adopted by all, the attacks on that will make the usage of our daily devices unsafe. The hackers can hack the devices any time, and can turn fatal too.

# Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) will continue to rise as a threat

Based on a new trend observed this year, the increase in Unix servers have been  given off and their bandwidth is being used in DDoS attacks. The intention of the attacker can differ widely, with hacking and create major problems. When the ease of conducting large DDoS attacks is looked into, Symantec anticipates that the DDoS growth trend will go on in the future with the short DDOS attacks on the run.

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