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The Internet of Things makes possible to connect each everyday object to the Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. From a security and privacy perspective, this tsunami of connectivity represents a disaster, which makes each object remotely hackable. We claim that, in order to tackle this issue, we need to address a new challenge in security: education.
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Cross site scripting (XSS) is an attack that injects malicious code into a Web application.
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Dragoni, N., Giaretta, A., Mazzara, M. (2018). The Internet of Hackable Things. In: Ciancarini, P., Litvinov, S., Messina, A., Sillitti, A., Succi, G. (eds) Proceedings of 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications. SEDA 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 717. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70578-1_13
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