Electrical grid blackouts, traffic light malfunctions, air traffic control failures, production plants gone haywire — for a while, such events were merely the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. But today, ...

Excerpt: “The huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which wiped security journalist Brian Krebs' website from the internet came from a million-device-strong Internet of Things botnet.

Never before has the potential market for modern life been so exciting, driven by the advent of the technology comprising the internet of things. IoT devices are already everywhere and could soon ...

According to research done by MarketsandMarkets, the global IoT market size is expected to reach $650.5 billion by 2026. However, it’s indisputable that IoT devices are vulnerable to security threats.

A cyber attack on the Internet infrastructure company Dyn on October 21 hindered internet browsing for hours while the company scrambled to restore service. The as-yet unidentified attackers were ...

The new Mini ad reads, "High-Speed Mobile Device" and touts the car's "digital hub that syncs with your devices and social networks. So now you can motor like the wind and tell everyone all about it." ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... To smarten up your home, you can buy a light bulb that flashes when new e-mail arrives. Or a thermostat that switches to eco mode when everyone has left the ...

The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System (DNS) server architecture: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to go ...

With the right leadership, we could apply an array of today's protocols, specs, and technologies to make the Internet safer for everyone The most important point of this argument is that we could, ...

Given rapidly evolving dangers such as Conficker and silent threats that lurk on otherwise innocent Web sites, having traditional antivirus software on your desktop isn’t enough today. You need a ...

One word summarizes the challenge of securing the Internet of Things (IoT): scale. It’s actually a two-fold challenge. The first issue is the sheer number of IoT devices connected to the internet -- a ...