Oracle continued its acquisition tear as the organization announced Monday it will get DNS provider Dyn, which received national consideration in October following a massive DDoS attack that prompted widespread web outages. Oracle plans to leverage Dyn’s cloud-primarily based Internet Performance and DNS technologies to enhance its personal cloud computing platform, according to Thomas Kurian, […]
Ry Crist for CNet: Less than a month ago, hackers took control of an ocean of unsecured connected home devices, then essentially crashed the entire internet by using them to flood the web’s largest internet management company with bogus traffic. Now, the makers of smart gadgets that communicate using Z-Wave are ratcheting up their security standards to help
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Having a smart speaker like Amazon Echo or Google Home in the house can feel like you’ve stepped into the future. It can also feel creepy. And sometimes, really annoying. All these impressions coursed through me over the last several days as I tested Echo and Home. I’m still not sure I’d want one in
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The “Internet of Things” isn’t coming. It’s already here and spreading at a pandemic pace that’s shaking the foundations of nearly every industry. That, in turn, is creating huge opportunities for local entrepreneurs and investors, and for students at the University of New Mexico, where the School of Engineering is now launching a new IoT
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Intel Security announced its second annual McAfee Most Hackable Holiday Gifts list to identify potential security risks associated with hot-ticket items this holiday season. The No. 1 most hackable gift category included laptops and PCs, followed by smartphones and tablets, media players and streaming sticks, smart home automation and devices, and
There’s a general malaise growing around IoT. After years of hype, more hype and even more hype, people are now starting to wonder: Where is this shiny, artificially intelligent, fully connected future of things we were promised? Certainly a botnet of hacked IoT devices launching one of the largest DDoS attacks ever seen has not helped. Part
Regulatory bodies are taking a close look at Internet of Things devices. In fact, political party D66 has proposed a new guideline to ban sales of all IoT devices posing a security risk. This is a rather disturbing proposal, but it also highlights the critical flaws associated with Internet of Things hardware. The political party
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Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is on the move. Analysts believe Qualcomm’s performance for 2016 will drop about 8%, after the previous year’s drop of almost 5%. For all intents and purposes, Qualcomm appeared to have forsaken strategic growth in favor of cost cutting during 2015 and 2016. The company’s reliance on smartphones, a market which faltered, did
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Virtual assistants that live in our home seems to be the way of the future. Google Home and Amazon Echo are currently your two best options when it comes to these sort of smart speakers right now, and each one comes with their own set of pros and cons. Amazon’s Alexa AI has been around
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Nest Aware subscribers can now record short videos with their outdoor or indoor cameras as well. Image Source: TechCrunch An article published Thursday on the official Nest blog unveiled a new update for their mobile app. The upgrade will integrate users’ home camera feeds with Android TV (already available), and Apple TV (coming soon). This
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