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Growth Of Wearables Market Brings Security Challenges

  • Forbes, Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:12 AM

Wearables are atop gift lists this year as Fitbit continues to grow and Apple is expected to sell six million Watches in the next month alone. Wearable-renting company Lumoid says it receives at least one new wearable device each week saying they “sometimes can’t keep up, especially now with the holiday season coming up.” There are more wearables on the market than ever before but experts like Good Technology’s John Herrema say manufacturers aren’t prepared to keep such a massive scale of users secure. “Generally, it’s going to be the next platform that tens of millions of people are using and the volume will be very high,” Herrema says. “It will be interesting after the Christmas season because It will become an attractive place for hackers to look.”

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