Internet of Things
6.4 billion connected things will be in use in 2016
Gartner forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. In 2016, 5.5 million new …
The transformative technology security nightmare
They say that every silver lining comes with a cloud attached and that’s certainly true of today’s transformative technologies. CEOs and the board rightly see BYOD, Cloud and …
Surviving in the IoT world: Risks of smart home devices
Investigating some of the latest Internet-of-Things (IoT) products, Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered serious threats to the connected home. These include a …
Online Trust Alliance releases new Internet of Things Trust Framework
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) updated the IoT Trust Framework, a comprehensive global initiative that provides guidance for device manufacturers and developers to enhance …
Creating a secure network for the Internet of Things
The attitudes and perceptions around the Internet of Things (IoT) span a wide array of views from the extreme excitement of consumers and manufacturers, to the concerns …
CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials
Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the …
Smart home security and privacy checklist
Today’s homes are being built and retrofitted with smart apps and devices to monitor things like security, temperature and lighting. Homeowners and renters should be cognizant …
Fitbit trackers can easily be infected with malware, and spread it on
Security researcher Axelle Apvrille has managed to deliver malware to a FitBit Flex fitness tracker, and to spread the infection to any computer that the device is …
Internet of Things: Rethinking privacy and information sharing
It is hard to imagine a world where the Internet of Things (IoT) is our collective “normal” – when our interaction with devices around us is so embedded in our lives, how we …
Existing security standards do not sufficiently address IoT
A lack of clarity and standards around Internet of Things (IoT) security is leading to a lack of confidence.According to the UK IT professionals surveyed by ISACA, 75 percent …
Internet of Things: Connecting the security dots from application design to post-sale
The age of Internet of Things is upon us. While it’s still early days, Gartner predicts that by 2020, the Internet of Things will be made up of 26 billion connected devices …
The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world
Volkswagen didn’t make a faulty car: they programmed it to cheat intelligently. The difference isn’t semantics, it’s game-theoretical (and it borders on applied demonology). …
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