The Internet of Things is a panoply of ingenious new devices making our future more convenient and sophisticated – until the machines turn on us and the whole thing comes crashing down.
Imagine your worst Internet of Things nightmare: Your smart devices attack you. Now imagine a bigger nightmare: Your dependable “smart” coffee maker stops serving your morning brew.
From “smart” TVs to security cameras, Internet of Things (IoT) devices are now commonly found in modern homes. A large percentage of households around the globe contain at least one networked IoT device, according to our recent research in collab…
From “smart” TVs to security cameras, Internet of Things (IoT) devices are now commonly found in modern homes. A large percentage of households around the globe contain at least one networked IoT device, according to our recent research in collab…
In the past decade, our home computing environments have multiplied in complexity. While in the past, you might just have a laptop and a Wi-Fi router, today the number of devices on the typical network has exploded. Phones, tablets, baby monitors, vide…
The FBI recently issued an immediate call-to-action for every small office and homeowner out there: power cycle (reboot) your router ASAP. The malware is coming. Chances are your router might be hiding in plain sight — you probably take it for granted since it just does its thing — but it needs your attention, and the sooner the better. If you are like many, you don’t always update your router firmware (only 14% of those recently surveyed have done so). Or, change the default administrator password (only 18% of those recently surveyed have done so) according to Broadband Genie. But, this time, you really need to.
The Internet of Things (IoT) join together physical devices that we use every day with information technology. Using internet-connected devices expands our ability to control and monitor in the real world. The IoT is literally changing our lives. The Internet of Things has the potential to fundamentally shift the way we interact with our surroundings. The ability to monitor […]
Your home and the devices in it will be a viable target for cybercrooks in 2016. Back in the good ol’ days of the early 2000s until just a few years ago, all we had to be concerned about was security on our desktop computers and laptop. In the intervening years, mobile devices have become […]
A look at some of the possible ways your new smart TV could be the subject of cyberattacks.Read More
The Internet is everywhere — in your TV, your light bulb, and even your refrigerator. We are now living in the world of the Internet of Things. With all of our physical devices connected to the Internet, it’s important to understand how someone might access your information or violate your privacy through these devices. As […]