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Machine-to-machine is just the tip of the Internet of Things iceberg. Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is a term used for automated data transmission and measurement between mechanical or electronic devices. Although many people assume that the two terms (M2M and IoT) are synonyms, the former is just a starting point for the latter. As CRN reported last […]

The security of a sex toy is very serious business. This is the conviction of a New Zealand hacker that goes by the name of Follower. The hacker, speaking at a talk named Breaking the Internet of Vibrating Things at Def Con in Las Vegas earlier this month, is talking about the We-Vibe 4 Plus

When George Orwell wrote 1984, surveillance technology was strictly analog. What would 1984 look like if it was written in the world of the Internet of things? That’s the question posed by the Nemesis Machine, a new interactive exhibition by British artist Stanza. Currently on display in Bruges, the Nemesis Machine translates environmental data from

Image: We vibe By Ariel BogleAustralia2016-08-11 02:44:51 UTC It’s all fun and games in the Internet of Things until your vibrator gets hacked.  On Friday, two hackers at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas proved the wonderfully-named world of “teledildonics” will be just as vulnerable to unfriendly intrusions and data-mining as everything else.

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is nebulous by design. Oh, a definition is easy. The ITU, the United Nations’ information technology arm, has defined IoT as “a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.” It’s