The Internet of (insecure) Things strikes again, according to a new report by independent testing agency AV-TEST.org, who have been taking a long, hard look at...
Tag - Internet of Things
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced an IoT competition, dubbed “FTC IoT Home Inspector Challenge”, promising $25,000 to whomever presents a...
The global IoT healthcare market is forecast to reach USD 163 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 38.1%, according to MarketsandResearch. However, following the...
Many challenges affect IoT security, and the top issue is that no connected device can be secured 100 percent. What’s worse is that not much has actually...
Only 3.2 billion of the world’s 7.3 billion people are connected to the internet, said Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer at #WebSummit. Computation power is...
A new wave of Distributed Denial of Service attacks using the Mirai botnet seems to have targeted Liberia’s internet service provider, potentially affecting...
The Mirai botnet has certainly has made its presence felt – hijacking control over poorly-protected Internet of Things devices across the globe to launch...
The US government’s Department of Homeland Security has warned owners of the Sierra Wireless gateway that they are being targeted by Mirai, a notorious...
The ill-famed IoT botnet that powered one of the biggest denial of service cyberattacks of recent years, has taken control of “zombie” devices from over 170...
Internet of Things is estimated to reach between 18 to 50 billion devices by 2020. But with great opportunity comes great risk, and a larger presence of IoT in...