my liability and harm to my reputation resulting from unauthorized abuse of my systems
consumption of my limited Internet access bandwidth and capacity
corruption or loss of my systems and data
theft and sale or other abuse of my private data
The first results mostly from the risk of my systems being incorporated into bot nets.
The second from bot nets and abusive crawlers.
The latter results mostly from ransom ware or open ended theft and exploitation of my data.
The threats are not all from the Internet. I saw an article recently about ‘smart’ TVs that are configured to be part of a web scraping infrastructure that the vendors sell as a service, in some cases configured to use up to 200GB per month of bandwidth.
The biggest threats I am concerned with are:
The first results mostly from the risk of my systems being incorporated into bot nets.
The second from bot nets and abusive crawlers.
The latter results mostly from ransom ware or open ended theft and exploitation of my data.
The threats are not all from the Internet. I saw an article recently about ‘smart’ TVs that are configured to be part of a web scraping infrastructure that the vendors sell as a service, in some cases configured to use up to 200GB per month of bandwidth.