A call for IoT standards: The security of internet-connected devices such as webcams, printers and routers must be standardized to prevent cyberattacks like the one that severely disrupted the internet Friday, experts said. Michelle Quinn writes: Despite the steady push for open space in the office, within Silicon Valley, there are some who long for […]
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Who should be held responsible for last week’s security breach that took out parts of the Internet? That question is becoming more pressing as regulators and the public begin to grasp the implication of the first major “Internet of things” attack, in which hackers hijacked millions of everyday devices such as security cameras and printers,
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AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Emerson (NYSE: EMR) announced at the Emerson Global Users Exchange that it is working with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to help industrial manufacturers realize the business impact and value of Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) with Emerson’s recently announced Plantweb digital ecosystem and Connected Services, powered by the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. Plantweb, the
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Kicking off a busy day for the Internet of Things market, Intel this morning is announcing the Atom E3900 series. Based upon the company’s latest generation Goldmont Atom CPU core, the E3900 series will be Intel’s most serious and dedicated project yet for the IoT market. We’ve talked about Intel’s IoT efforts off and on
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Each internet-connected lightbulb is another entrance for hackers looking to break into your network. Image: iStock A number of internet-connected devices are so lacking in even the most basic cybersecurity protocols that it’s possible to hack them in as little as three minutes, allowing cyberattackers to steal data, conduct espionage on enterprise activities, or even
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The denial of service attack that knocked out access to many popular websites last week — Netflix, Twitter and PayPal included — revealed a major gap in the country’s online security network: Baby monitors. Baby monitors, web cameras, thermometers, smart TVs, DVRs, even cars are all part of the burgeoning “internet of things.” When connected to the web, they
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Cybersecurity experts on Monday called for standardized security measures for connected webcams, printers and routers in the wake of a massive cyber attack spread by those devices. But in the meantime, billions of poorly secured “internet of things” (IoT) gadgets remain open for exploitation by criminals, corporate spies, activist hackers and nation states. “There is not a
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The U.S. government said Monday that it will release in the coming weeks a set of principles for securing the Internet of Things, or Internet-connected devices, which were employed partly by hackers to carry out Friday’s cyberattacks that disrupted major U.S. websites. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said Monday his department is “closely
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What the hell is Dyn? On Friday, the internet wasn’t quite silenced, but it was certainly muffled. A cyberattack aimed at knocking many of the world’s major websites offline made targets as varied as Twitter, Airbnb, Etsy, and The New York Times inaccessible to a large swath of internet users on the United States’ East Coast
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Xiongmai’s webcams may have been at the heart of the hack Friday that led to outages across the web. Xiongmai If you were anywhere near the internet in the US on Friday, you probably noticed a bunch of your favorite websites were down for much of the day. Now, experts are saying it’s all because
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