2018 prediction: The endangered hyperlink

Attacks targeting the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet have risen at an alarming rate and now every business needs to take protective measures

“Hey, send me that link!” You’ll hear that phrase everywhere and in every language around the world. The hyperlink is as core part of our global culture as it is core to the Internet itself.

It’s how we share photos, videos and pay our bills; it’s how billions of dollars in e-commerce are transacted daily; it’s our most fundamental and foundational Internet technology.

Yet the hyperlink — this blue-underlined iconic symbol of the Internet — is under threat as criminal organizations and secret foreign government agencies step up attacks on Domain Name System (DNS) servers to hijack traffic, inject spyware into corporate networks and dupe consumers into exposing private financial data.

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