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If Friday marked the dawn of a new era of internet attacks then, so far at least, the new era looks an awful lot like the old one. Tomwang112/Thinkstock Where were you when a massive distributed denial-of-service attack interrupted internet connectivity for large swaths of the East Coast on Friday morning? With any luck, you
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The Duke Reporters’ Lab, a journalism-centric arm of Duke University, has unveiled a new political fact-checking app for Alexa Voice-enabled devices—including the Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap—giving device owners the ability to fact-check politicians in real time. A spin-off of the Lab’s Share the Facts fact-checking project, the app is available in the Skills
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The unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted access to scores of websites and services on Friday has led to some action: a product recall. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a Chinese company whose DVRs and webcams were hijacked and used to carry out the DDoS attack, is recalling all of its webcam models, according to Reuters.
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The massive cyberattack that resulted in widespread outages for some of the world’s most popular websites Friday was carried out using a network of hacked “Internet of Things” devices, such as webcams and digital recorders.That’s right, your PVR may have played a part in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and you would have had
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Amazon’s Echo speaker is one of the more popular smart home products that are available on the market, and with good reason as it’s powerful and includes loads of functions. The Echo Dot is a smaller version of the Echo, although it doesn’t have as many capabilities. It is however, still powered by Amazon’s Alexa
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The smart home. It’s something that many of us dream about, but the cost involved to actually bring some smarts into your house or apartment is still a bit too expensive for a lot of people out there. Amazon is one of the biggest companies out there that’s putting a lot of time and money
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For millennials, the ability to easily check balances, pay bills and transfer money on a mobile banking app is no longer enough. To lure millennials, mobile banking apps must leverage the native functionality of mobile hardware. Each and every function of the mobile phone can be used to differentiate the engagement financial institution has with
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What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years
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When the Internet apocalypse comes, your smart thermostat may be to blame. That’s the lesson from last week’s epic Internet outage, in which attackers used Internet-connected devices inside peoples homes to bring a large chunk of the Web to its knees. The outage, which mainly affected the East coast of the U.S., struck on Friday
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