A connected sprinkler system may seem like an unlikely hack target – but for fraudsters, any networked IoT device can be a gateway to the smart home ecosystem. This means that every IoT device, no matter how innocuous, must be secured. In this month’s IoT...
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow in popularity: A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) study projects there will be 41.6 billion IoT devices by 2025, up from 7 billion in 2018. This growth is the result of several factors, including low silicon costs...
Smart technology is what makes ordering by voice and remotely monitoring your home possible. Promising as intelligence of things (IoT) solutions are, though, security has been a stumbling block. The June IoT Tracker explores the latest advancements in IoT security and new applications of smart...
There is a tendency when talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) — and all the miraculous things it will power in the future — to lose sight of the fact that it’s not really a conversation about the future. While it is still the...
Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. What’s happening now could signal bigger changes to come in the next few months or even years –...
Facebook and its social media properties Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger all experienced outages over the weekend, with users around the world reporting problems. According to a report in Mashable, users said they were having difficulties when using Facebook and Instagram, complaining of not being able...
Every day, in nearly every corner of the world, 1.4 billion people log onto Facebook and 500 million people log onto Instagram. On Wednesday (March 13), that audience of almost two billion – roughly a quarter of the planet’s population – got something of a nasty shock. When...
Google has expanded its users’ choice of search products, with pro-privacy rival DuckDuckGo benefiting the most. According to reports, Google has “quietly” updated its default search engine lists, expanding them to include pro-privacy search engines in 60 markets around the world. These search engines are...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, is marking the technology’s 30th anniversary by asking for an end to its misuse. According to Bloomberg, Berners-Lee explained in a letter that while the technology had created positive opportunities, it had also been abused...
