IoT

Why is IoT locked in 'proof-of-concept hell'? Stakeholders don't talk to each other, and return on investment is hazy

Canalys Forum 2020 Private equity funding stalls amid COVID-19

Edge + IoT09 Oct 2020 | 16

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

Users fear hack – really the 'processing infrastructure was running behind'

Edge + IoT01 Oct 2020 | 84

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

Analysis Right, we own cloud, shipping, what's next? The home

Edge + IoT28 Sep 2020 | 59

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

You can only use it to weigh yourself now... how disgustingly low-tech

Software22 Sep 2020 | 49

Keeping them for a rainy day? Arm decides against spinning off cloudy IoT businesses to parent Softbank – report

Right as the Japanese mega-corp seeks to flog the Brit CPU design house

Edge + IoT26 Aug 2020 | 1

Sloppy string sanitization sabotages system security of millions of Java-powered 3G IoT kit: Patch me if you can

IBM's X-Force Red X-reveals X-flaw in Thales X-wireless X-module X-thing

Security20 Aug 2020 | 9

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

DEF CON In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants

Security10 Aug 2020 | 29

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Nationwide network operator gets into tizzy with chimney owners

Edge + IoT10 Jul 2020 | 58

Tens of millions of Internet-of-Things, network-connected gizmos at risk of remote hijacking? Computer, engage shocked mode

Collection of bugs, dubbed Ripple20, sink widely used TCP/IP stack

Edge + IoT17 Jun 2020 | 27

An Internet of Trouble lies ahead as root certificates begin to expire en masse, warns security researcher

Interview 'This is going to be a problem; we are not on top of this'

Security10 Jun 2020 | 119

Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

Updated You should check how long a vendor intends to support the kit, says Which?

Security08 Jun 2020 | 283

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

And if you win, we'll make it into a kitemark

Security01 Jun 2020 | 21

Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin

Ubiquitous consumer kit maker EOLs netcam. Oh, AND the cloud services that make it work

Edge + IoT29 Apr 2020 | 49

Sophos XG firewalls hacked, hotfix ready. Texts wreck Apple iThings. Yup, business as usual in infosec world

Roundup Plus Office 2016, 2019 patches – and a barn-load of other security bits and bytes

Security26 Apr 2020 | 9

Kerching! Intel PC chip shortage over just in time for everyone to buy computers for pandemic home working

Sales, profit soar in first three months of 2020 as coronavirus helps Chipzilla print money

Personal Tech23 Apr 2020 | 10

The Internet of Things is a security nightmare, latest real-world analysis reveals: Unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes

And the best part of it? Hospitals are most at risk

Edge + IoT11 Mar 2020 | 38

Computer, deactivate self-destruct system requirement, says Sonos... were it on a starship in space, and not a smart-speaker slinger

Audio gear maker drops 'recycle mode' aka 'e-waste mountain candidate'

Edge + IoT06 Mar 2020 | 46

GCHQ's infosec arm has 3 simple tips to secure those insecure smart home gadgets

UK.gov tries the KISS approach to infosec advice for the public

Security03 Mar 2020 | 75

Dear makers of smart home things. Yeah, you with that bright idea of an IoT Candle. Here's an SDK from Amazon

Updated Management software for smart devices to ease entry into ecosystem

Edge + IoT26 Feb 2020 | 12

Time to patch your lightbulb? Researchers demonstrate Philips Hue exploit

First the lightbulb. Then the controller. Then your internal network.

Security05 Feb 2020 | 26

IoT security? We've heard of it, says UK.gov waving new regs

Department of Fun straps on a holster, strides into the wild west of online gadget users

Security28 Jan 2020 | 21

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

Surely only a matter of time before the Matrix has you?

Edge + IoT15 Jan 2020 | 30

RISC-V business: SiFive and CEVA join forces to enable the development AI-amenable, edge-oriented processors

System-on-a-chip IP partnership seeks to create more smart home, automobile, robotics, IoT, and industrial applications, among others

AI + ML08 Jan 2020 | 7

Internet of crap (encryption): IoT gear generates easy-to-crack keys

Poor entropy in embedded devices leading to weaker certificates: study

Edge + IoT16 Dec 2019 | 18

Amazon straightens up its IoT house, complete with virtual Alexa, ahead of Las Vegas shindig

re:Invent Coffee machines will listen to you if vendors implement it

Edge + IoT26 Nov 2019 | 13

Heads up from Internet of S*!# land: Best Buy's Insignia 'smart' home gear will become very dumb this Wednesday

Alexa! Turn off my lights. Alexa! Alexa? Oh FFS

Edge + IoT05 Nov 2019 | 191

Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

At least it'll wipe clean

Edge + IoT21 Oct 2019 | 97

Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices

Westminster Hall debate shows parties in harmony over sticking their oar in

Legal08 Oct 2019 | 10

In 21st-century tech dystopia, smart TV watches you, warns Princeton privacy prof

You make de-legitimising targeted advertising as a business model sound easy

Edge + IoT01 Oct 2019 | 37

Coin-mining malware jumps from Arm IoT gear to Intel servers

Exclusive Cryptocurrency crooks look to siphon cycles from enterprise kit

Security30 Aug 2019 | 10

Even tech giants find themselves telling folk not to use default passwords on Internet of S**t kit

Top tips to defend against nation-state network intrusion

Edge + IoT06 Aug 2019 | 40

As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

Let's be careful out there

Security29 Jul 2019 | 15

We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers

You can monitor your child – and their bowels – 24 hours a day! Which is… great?

Edge + IoT18 Jul 2019 | 132

Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space

From elephants to fish, there's no GDPR in the animal kingdom

Security09 Jul 2019 | 30

Fibaro flummoxed, Georgia courts held for ransom, and more

Roundup Plus, Florida Man out of a job for paying off hackers

Security06 Jul 2019 | 16

More households invite creepy smart speakers indoors: Arch-slurper Google top dog for Q1

Chocolate Factory overtakes Amazon as European sales surge 45.1% – people clearly didn't hear the cries of frustrated Google Home users

Personal Tech02 Jul 2019 | 37

The Great IoT Protocol War may have been won: Thread's 1.2 release aims at business

Analysis Meanwhile in the home, it's all Google, Amazon, Apple…

Edge + IoT25 Jun 2019 | 27

Freaking out about fiendish IoT exploits? Maybe disable telnet, FTP and change that default password first?

Home devices are so poorly guarded, attackers don't even need sophisticated tools

Security18 Jun 2019 | 42

Mirai botnet malware offspring graduates from uni, puts on a suit, slips into your enterprise

Isn't that what we all want for our kids, after all?

Edge + IoT14 Jun 2019 | 1

Can't quite cram a working AI onto a $1 2KB microcontroller? Just get a PC to do it

Boffins craft code that compresses machine-learning models for modest microchips

AI + ML04 Jun 2019 | 44

IE under fire, Triton goes under the microscope, and Norsk Hydro reeling from ransomware attack

Plus, Minnesota and North Carolina cities hit by hackers

Security13 Apr 2019 | 18

Centrica: Server fault on Wednesday caused Hive to crash on the Tuesday. Yes, yes, that's what we said

App services has now thawed, and of course energy supplier is very, very sorry

SaaS08 Apr 2019 | 50

Bit nippy, is it? Hive smart home users find themselves tweaking thermostat BY HAND

Massive outage across energy firm Centrica's app estate

Personal Tech02 Apr 2019 | 115

International investors gobble up Brit satellite specialist Inmarsat

Nom-nom-nom, says hungry private equity type Triton Bidco

On-Prem25 Mar 2019 | 11

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks 'by 11%'

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4

Security19 Mar 2019 | 10

Don't be too shocked, but it looks as though these politicians have actually got their act together on IoT security

Analysis Actual bipartisan legislation in the US, with industry backing, reemerges

Edge + IoT13 Mar 2019 | 32

FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank...

Roundup Tired: Booth babes. Wired: Floof babes. Expired: Conference hall carpets

Security09 Mar 2019 | 53

No guns or lockpicks needed to nick modern cars if they're fitted with hackable 'smart' alarms

Vulnerable kit can immobilise motors and even unlock doors

Security08 Mar 2019 | 65

Smart home owner? Don't make your crib easy pickings for the smart home pwner

Consumer IoT PITA to secure but not impossible, report warns

Edge + IoT05 Mar 2019 | 21

Azure IoT heads spacewards to maintain connectivity at the edge, courtesy of Inmarsat

Microsoft: 20 billion connected devices by 2020. Voda, Arm: How about 1 trillion by 2035?

Edge + IoT25 Feb 2019 | 5

SAP plugs IoT into Leonardo toolkit to woo big money industries

MWC Cloud-to-cloud interoperability with Microsoft, more vendors to come

Software25 Feb 2019 | 4

Where's Zero Cool when you need him? Loose chips sink ships: How hackers could wreck container vessels

Or Acid Burn? Or Lord Nikon? Weak IT security may end in disaster at sea... one day

Security21 Feb 2019 | 25

Just do IoT? We'd walk a mile in someone else's Nike smart sneakers, but they seem to be 'bricked'

Updated Owners having a connection 'mare in the Internet of Trainers

Edge + IoT20 Feb 2019 | 63

Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone

+Comment Whoops! Oh gosh

Personal Tech20 Feb 2019 | 156

Sigfox cracks open IoT radio protocol specs for world+dog (+badgers?)

Low-power ultra-narrowband network for your street, ma'am?

Networks13 Feb 2019 | 11

From Firefox to fired cocks: Look who's out to save you being shafted by insecure Internet of Dingalings – it's Mozilla!

Secret-keeping screw-ups bedevil amorous appliances

Edge + IoT06 Feb 2019 | 18