Tag: security
How can Internet of Things Botnet attacks be mitigated?
Eric Watkins, senior malicious detection researcher at zvelo, discusses the rise of IoT botnet attacks and how to mitigate the threat they pose.
The meteoric...
Blockchain: The ultimate game-changer for IoT security?
The Internet of Things (IoT) has a problem: security. Is Blockchain the answer to all its woes?
IoT has burst onto the tech scene in...
Federeal Trade Commission unveils $25K IoT security challenge
The US Federal Trade Commission has launched a new competition to increase the level of security in IoT products.
Dubbed the IoT Home Inspector Challenge,...
Amazon Echo murder case marks the death of privacy as we...
A landmark murder case is being built around the data collected by Amazon Echo and other smart home devices, a clear sign that police...
Seven predictions for the Internet of Things in 2017
Internet of Business looks to the experts to determine what's in store for IoT in 2017. Here follows seven IoT predictions made at the...
Users risk security issues by not updating connected IoT devices
Ubuntu warns developers that barely a third of users update firmware on connected devices, leaving them at risk of security breaches.
Less than a third...
US think-tank calls for IoT device design to be regulated
The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a think tank based in Washington DC, has issued a report calling for IoT device design to be...
Insurers must integrate IoT into business processes or face extinction
IoB Insiders Concirrus CEO Andrew Yeoman says insurers must be prepared to change through the Internet of Things (IoT).
The Internet of Things (IoT) will become...
Privacy and IoT: innovative regulations needed to regulate innovation
IoB Insiders The speed of innovation within the Internet of Things (IoT) is gathering pace, yet developments are currently moving faster than the regulators,...
Blockchain and IoT technologies combine for document authentication
Blockchain firm Factom and Smartac, a company that creates radio-frequency identification (RFID) products for the Internet of Things (IoT), are launching a vital document...
400 platforms, 100+ standards and one big fat reality check for...
The IoT community likes to get excited by the potential number of connected devices, and the revenue that could generate for solution providers – but there...
Arcep white paper outlines regulatory issues facing IoT
French Postal and Communications regulatory authority, Arcep, has released a white paper outlining five key issues for regulating the Internet of Things (IoT).
The white paper,...