Eleven manufacturers have been flagged for having a privacy flaw in their security and doorbell cameras after a university student discovered the issue.
Atmos Home Develops First “Local” Voice-Powered Home Hub
A mainstream home hub often puts your privacy in peril. Atmos Home aims to solve this by making a local voice-powered home hub that respects your privacy.
Researchers Discover New Privacy Threat for Biometric Data
Researchers have discovered a new way for hackers to get their hands on your data. As it turns out, IoT isn’t storing biometric data as well as we might have hoped.
How Blockchains Can Cause Severe Privacy Issues
While Blockchains are important for storing permanent data that cannot be changed, it also brings a new privacy issue – how can confidential data be removed from blockchains?
Ring Doorbell Camera Partners with Police, Giving Access to Your Camera Footage
More than 400 police forces in the U.S. are partnering up with Ring Doorbell and have been granted potential access to homeowner camera footage.
IoT and Privacy: Can They Co-exist Together?
New technologies often mean a reduction in privacy, especially for IoT. Can IoT and privacy co-exist, or do we just have to live with lesser privacy?
Eavesdropping Concerns Cause Apple Watch’s Walkie-Talkie App to Be Disabled
This week Apple disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on Apple Watches when it was discovered it allowed users to listen in on each other’s phone calls.
What You Need to Know About the Dark Side of IoT Devices
For everything good we get from IoT, we’re also adding the potential for bad things to happen. Find out about the dark side of IoT devices that you are not aware of.
Report Shows that IoT Devices Are Under Constant Attack
A new report is showing that IoT devices are under a constant attack, and those that are facing the most threat are those facing zero-day vulnerabilities.
Will the Emergence of IoT Make the Internet Less Safe?
With various IoT devices connected to your network, your security is now dependent on how secure each device is. What if the IoT world is proving to be less secure than we had hoped?
Security, Privacy, Virtual Reality: How Hacking Might Affect VR and AR
As VR and AR becoming more popular, there could be some very real risks to security and privacy, even crossing the border into the physical world.
Less than 50% of Businesses Can Detect IoT Device Breaches
The biggest concern of our lives increasingly being turned out to the Internet of Things is being more open to data breaches, and less than 50% of businesses can detect IoT device breaches.
Study Finds Smart Speaker Users Trade Privacy for Convenience
A recent study determined that smart speaker users are willing to trade privacy to get that convenience.