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The Internet of Things is under attack, and it could change our future homes

One of many visions of the smart home of the very near future, from British Gas. Image: Benjamin Braun via youtube  By Adario Strange2016-10-23 01:27:26 UTC Winter is here. The Internet of Things (IoT) winter, that is.  All those digital routers, DVRs, “smart” kitchen appliances and IP-enabled cameras you assumed were innocuous as they worked […]

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Attack reveals new vulnerabilities in nation's 'internet of things'

WASHINGTON — When surveillance cameras first began popping up in the 1970s and ’80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, and then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory floors and even baby cribs. Later, they were adopted for darker purposes, as authoritarian governments such as China’s used them to prevent challenges to

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You Can Now Ask Alexa To Fact Check Donald Trump And Hillary Clinton

“Alexa … who is telling the truth?” Winston Churchill believed that the best argument against democracy was a five-minute chat with the average voter. For millions of average American voters, that five minutes has now gone on for more than a year and a half. After months of campaigning, mud-slinging, televised debates, scandals, the two candidates vying

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

The nation’s growing attachment to an “Internet of Things” likely helped hackers launch a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that led to problems on numerous major websites on Friday, Dyn, the company that manages much of the Internet’s infrastructure, said Friday. “This was not your everyday DDoS attack,” Dyn chief strategist Kyle York told The New

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'Internet Of Things' Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular Websites

NPR’s Scott Simon talk with NPR technology reporter Alina Selyukh about the internet outages that disrupted major U.S. websites on Friday. Enlarge this image Dyn is a company that helps route Internet traffic and supports major websites and services. Dyn/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Dyn/Screenshot by NPR Updated at 7:30 p.m. ET Hackers

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It probably wasn't Russia who attacked the Internet today. That's what's scary.

Twitter was unavailable for much of Friday after a massive attack on the underpinnings of the Internet. (Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infrastructure. NBC reported that a senior intelligence

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The eerie future of AdWords targeting

“OK Google, tell me how creepy things are going to get.” How would your 2006 selves respond to our advertising toolbox of today? Much of what we internet users and advertisers deem as normal would have been considered creepy or just plain impossible 10 years ago. With demographic targeting for search, cross-device attribution and much more rolling

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