Smart city systems are riddled with critical security vulnerabilities
Researchers have uncovered countless zero-day bugs which can be used to kill our critical city systems. IBM has discovered 17 zero-day vulnerabilities in smart city systems which could debilitate core services. At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Monday, the cybersecurity firm's X-Force Red team of penetration testers and hackers demonstrated how old-school threats are placing the cities of the future at risk in the present day. Smart city technology spending is predi