Category: Internet of Things

The ability to gather and transmit data from objects over a network without human intervention, making that data observable and actionable, e.g., your fridge telling you the milk has expired.

Internet of Things

Shodan Launches Search Engine for Vulnerable Webcams

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IoT search service Shodan.io has launched a new section of its site for searching Webcams that aren’t properly secured.

Anyone with a paid account can browse the service’s collection of Webcam images, taken from a variety of settings, from schools to people’s homes. According to Ars Technica, a security expert was able to find easily “marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash register cameras in retail stores.”

IoT security represents a real and looming threat as we enable data gathering through more and more of our formerly dumb appliances, and regulations — as well as counter-tech — need to catch up quickly.

Read more: Ars Technica

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Hello, HaLow: New Wi-Fi Protocol for IoT Unveiled

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The Wi-Fi Alliance, the consortium that decides on the standards by which your laptop lets you stream all those anime series on Netflix, has unveiled a new low-power protocol for Internet of Things devices.

The new standard, called HaLow, promises to double the range for your smart devices and do a better job of penetrating the walls and floors between your router and, say, your master bathroom. Standard Wi-Fi uses 2.4GHz and 5GHz connections, but HaLow will broadcast in the 900MHz band, consuming less power and making range less of an issue — both of which are important hurdles to overcome if wearables are to continue to gain traction in the marketplace.

Read more: Wi-Fi Alliance, Wired

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Absolut Sets up IoT Testing Lab for Connected Vodka

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Here’s a candidate for the Best Place in the World to Work: Spirits producer Pernod Richard has created an Internet of Things testing lab for Absolut, its renowned vodka brand, in its Stockholm HQ. This might be the pinnacle of IoT. Seriously, I’ve got a whole kanban board full of smart liquor bottle ideas and drinking games.

The company is partnering with IoT “Agency of Things” SharpEnd to develop ideas for a more connected spirits model.  The companies say they’re starting with three core ideas:

  • Mood: Each bottle can send a curated playlist of songs to a Sonos wireless speaker device; they don’t mention other parameters, but I’m hoping the playlist adapts to how empty the bottle is. Halfway through, you’re all about the ride cymbal in Uptown Funk, but by the end, you’re going to need some downbeat Sinoia Caves.
  • Homelife: Smart bottles that can connect you to, say, Uber drivers to schlep you to the store to get more lemons.
  • Provenance: Easy access to detailed info about the bottle and the spirit in it, such as where it was made.

Absolut will bring in users to test eight new products and services across the Absolut Vodka, Malibu, and Kahlua brands.

brb applying for smart vodka internship. – ed.

Read more: MarketingMagazine.co.uk

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Software exec: IoT may create a new generation of hacker hitmen

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We’ll probably never get a new Hitman game as good as Blood Money was, and we certainly won’t get a good movie out of that franchise, and now one guy thinks the future version of 47 will be a hacker who knows his or her way around IoT protocols, not piano wire.

Lev Lesokhin, EVP for Strategy at CAST Software, thinks the current lack of focus on stringent security for IoT at every level of development may create freelance “remote hitmen” — as well as drive up enterprise costs to address those security gaps in the long term.

“Its proponents see the Internet of Things as being filled with incredible opportunities; ironically, hackers perceive it to be the same way. Sitting hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away, they could be in position to cause all kinds of damage to individuals, to companies, or more.”

One example Lesokhin provides is the recent FDA safety alert to healthcare companies to stop using a specific networked drug pump, given that a patient’s drug dosage could potentially be altered remotely by someone who knew which IP ports the pump uses. Scary stuff, especially when considered alongside Jeep’s recall to address concerns about insecure braking systems.

Read the article: SC Magazine UK

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