Kids’ smartwatches are usually intended to help parents feel at ease that their children are safe when they’re not around. But as it turns out, a number of these devices may do more harm than good. A 49-page report on smartwatches for children (with the unfortunate title of #WatchOut) details all the ways in which…

These four best practices will help safeguard your organization in the Internet of Things.

The security of wearable fitness trackers could be improved to better protect users' personal data, a study suggests.

The companies that make our digital devices think – and act – like they still own them, even after we’ve bought them. Are we becoming digital serfs?

Hackers can take control of the world’s most popular voice assistants by whispering to them in frequencies humans can’t hear.

A couple of years ago, a reader took issue with a column on cybersecurity. Why are we...

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government's purchase and use of a broad range of Internet-connected devices, including computers, routers and security cameras. The legislation, which also seeks to…

Just a few days after musing about the potential to sell mapping data of customers’ homes, the CEO of Roomba maker iRobot has pedaled those claims way back. In a statement provided to ZDNet,...

With everything from speakers to water meters sending information to the cloud, a murder trial is testing the boundaries of privacy at home.

It's Google Buzz's screwup all over again. That you talked to someone on the phone once DOES NOT mean you two are socially connected.

Federal cybersecurity and privacy protections for children are not keeping up with the burgeoning data collection engaged in by “smart” toys and online games, Sen. Mark Warner said Monday, asking the Federal Trade Commission if the law needs to be changed. In a letter to acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen, the senator says he’s concerned the agency is soft-pedaling the dangers the Internet of Things might pose for children, citing a speech she gave earlier this year. “Reports of your statements casting these risks as merely speculative — and dismissing consumer harms that don’t pose “monetary injury or unwarranted health and safety risks” — only deepen my concerns,” the Virginia Democrat wrote. He cites the recent example of CloudPets, a product from Spiral Toys that’s marketed as “a message you can hug.” The company turned out to be storing users’ personal data in an insecure, public-facing online database — reportedly exposing over 800,000 customer logins and passwords and more than 2 million voice recordings […]

OMG! Hackers take down energy grid! David Murakami Wood and Michael Carter calmly explain the how and why (or why not) of infrastructure hacking today.

Against the internet of things.

A host of spaces that were once immune to commercial intrusion – from parks to our friendships – are now being infiltrated by advertisers. Are we being enslaved by a ‘merciless master’?

BakerHostetler began publishing its Data Security Incident Response Report in 2015. Although we were the first law firm to do so, inspiration for the

Startup tells customer “Your unit will be denied server connection.”