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Rapid7 Aims to Stop IoT Devices from Becoming Pawns in Future Cyber Attacks

A little over a week ago, the East Coast suffered a major cyber attack that prevented users from accessing dozens of major websites, including Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, AirBnb and Reddit. The reason the internet essentially blew up for people on the Eastern seaboard is a major distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack had been […]

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Malware That Took Part of the Internet Offline Presents Ongoing Threat

Major websites including Netflix, Amazon, Twitter, Reddit, and others sputtered out on Oct. 21, as a cyberattack with record-breaking power brought down Dyn, an internet infrastructure company that, among other services, provides domain name services to keep websites running. The attack should have actually been expected—and we can expect similar attacks to follow in the

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Rapid7 Announces Strategic Consulting and Assessment Services to Secure the Internet of Things

BOSTON, Nov. 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rapid7, Inc. (NASDAQ:RPD), a leading provider of security data and analytics solutions, today announced that it has expanded its strategic consulting and security testing offerings to aid organizations in securely developing and deploying non-traditional internet connected devices, often referred to as the internet of things (IoT). The new

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'Internet of Things' May Have Led to Massive Server Attacks

Yesterday, major websites and services became victims of a well-coordinated cyber attack including PlayStation Network, Netflix, Twitter, Reddit and Spotify among a plethora of others. Security firm Flashpoint has been working with Dyn – the company providing core internet services to the websites affected – to investigate the attacks. “This was not your everyday DDoS

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Heptagon Company RF Digital Launches Simblee™ Alliance chaired by Dr. Michael Foley …

HERMOSA BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RF Digital, a Heptagon company and manufacturer of Simblee™ and other market-leading wireless solutions, today announced the formation of the Simblee™ Alliance, an industry group dedicated to accelerating IoT product and application development and deployment, with adoption of the Simblee platform and ecosystem, and to delivering immediate and tangible results to member

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Technically speaking: how designers are putting the home back into home tech

Merchandising slogans like ‘intelligent home’ and ‘automated home’ have been banded around since the 1964 New York World’s Fair. In recent times, these have become increasingly difficult to decode. Despite the unprecedented potential of smart home technology, when faced with the prospect of AI butlers and networking kitchens, it’s easy to see why even the

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IoT interoperability: Where it stands and what comes next

The Allseen Alliance earlier this month merged with the Open Connectivity Foundation with plans to operate under the OCF name in working towards interoperability in the “internet of things” market through open source software frameworks and standards. IoT interoperability is a hot topic at conferences around the world, with the forecast billions of forthcoming IoT devices

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