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5479607 A university’s IT staff recently battled a concerted assault piped and coordinated through smart, web-capable vending machines, light bulbs, and other devices, according to a Verizon report. A senior member of the institution’s IT security team was the first to identify the problem after receiving a number of student complaints about slow or inaccessible network connectivity. The

The technology sector isn’t always the best place for investment stability, nor are new technology trends ever much of a safe investment. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Internet of Things (IoT) is ushering in a massive wave of technological changes — nearly 50 billion things will be connected to the IoT by

Image: vector By Gianluca Mezzofiore2017-02-13 22:05:19 UTC It sounds like a sci-fi movie. Over 5,000 connected devices, including light bulbs and vending machines, were hacked to slow internet service at a university to a crawl.  Poorly secured internet of things (IoT) devices have become gold mines for hackers looking to launch DDoS attacks to take

The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people’s chief means of interacting with their principal computing devices. In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition. Whereas a cellphone running speech-recognition

Retailers are on high alert. U.S. companies and government agencies experienced a record 1,093 data breaches in 2016, up 40% year over year, and all evidence suggests still more (and still more dangerous) digital attacks are coming in 2017. Nearly one in three retailers have already suffered revenue losses as a result of a cyberattack,