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IoT security risks include physical, network, software and encryption attacks that target the sensor, network and application layers of IoT systems.
Internet-connected home devices that are marketed as the newest conveniences are also being used to harass, monitor and control.
We face a worrisome future of weak IoT devices. The makers are strongly motivated to keep the devices cheap, but flaws that cannot be fixed at scale are inevitable. The result is a network full of devices that can and will be abused.
Joe Walsh set up four Amazon Echo Dot voice-controlled speakers in December. By May, he...
A Portland, Oregon, family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa – the voice-controlled smart speaker – and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.
Good example of escalation and migration.
“Cybersecurity will be the most pressing challenge of the next decade, and IoT will play a critical role in it.” Internet Society 2017 Global Internet Report Introduction The open nature of the Internet creates the ability to connect devices, applications and services on a scale that transforms the way we interact with our environment and […]
If they're getting valuable enough stuff from you, at least the organized crime folks have an incentive to issue regular updates to keep the appliance working after the manufacturer discontinues support.
When browsing the web, most people know the basics of protecting themselves. But smart home technology is a different story.
And yet there's been nothing but silence from the companies.
The company's fifth transparency report reveals more customer data was handed to US law enforcement in the first-half of last year than ever before.
Amid the holiday shopping season, cybersecurity researchers warn that new, interactive toys are vulnerable to many hacking threats.
Toy bird induced to swear like a -- parrot.
That Bluetooth Cayla doll and i-Que surveillance robot can be taken over by any creep within 9 meters who wants to talk to your kid.
Contacts, call logs, text messages and other information from paired phones was stored unencrypted.
Cybersecurity start-up claims flaws allow access to people’s video feeds
Op-ed: Devices like Amazon Key put too much risk assessment on users; bad decisions follow.
The Federal Trade Commission is providing additional guidance on how the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule applies to the collection of audio voice recordings by organizations covered by the