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Trellyz app, IoT maximize impact of humanitarian relief services

Mobile apps and IoT sensors direct the needy to nearby help while empowering humanitarian relief groups to do more with less

Oct 25, 2016 4 mins

Enterprise Applications Internet of Things

Answers to ‘Is the internet broken?’ and other Dyn DDoS questions

What you need to know about the attacks and what to do

Oct 24, 2016 5 mins

Internet of Things Security

Media fails to tell consumers about device flaws in Friday’s internet outage

When reporting on Friday’s DDoS attack, the national media should have warned consumers not to install internet-connected devices that have a 4-year-old flaw

Oct 24, 2016 5 mins

Endpoint Protection Internet of Things Security

Chinese firm admits its hacked products were behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack

Botnets created from the Mirai malware were involved in Friday's cyber attack

Oct 23, 2016 3 mins

Internet Internet of Things Security

dweet.io: A simple, effective messaging service for the Internet of Things

A minimum of fuss in setup and operation means that developing a messaging infrastructure for IoT systems is quick and easy

Oct 21, 2016 5 mins

Internet of Things

An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack

DVRs and other devices compromised with the Mirai malware are being the attack

Oct 21, 2016 2 mins

Internet Internet of Things Networking

Gartner: By 2020, you’ll say more to a machine than to your spouse

10 near-term predictions from Gartner that may be worth caring about

Oct 20, 2016 4 mins

Internet of Things Mobile Apps

BBC eyes worldwide expansion for tiny educational computer

And then there were two: The Micro:bit Educational Foundation and the Raspberry Pi Foundation both support the teaching of coding worldwide -- but using very different computers

Oct 19, 2016 3 mins

IT Skills and Training Internet of Things Software Development

Hackers create more IoT botnets with Mirai source code

The total number of IoT devices infected with the Mirai malware has reached 493,000

Oct 18, 2016 2 mins

Internet of Things Security

Connected cameras will get smarter with new Qualcomm chips

New chips and software will let cameras instead of the cloud do some analytics

Oct 17, 2016 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Internet of Things Small and Medium Business