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Smart thermostats present a rare chance to tackle energy conservation and cost reduction at the same time - but users must ensure they have ultimate control of the device. If smart thermostats reach every home with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning by 2026, annual space heating and cooling energy consumption could be cut by 45 terawatt-hours or 9%. Such a saving would be the equivalent of the total energy used by the state of Mississippi in 2020.
A couple of vulnerabilities in Ikea smart lighting systems can be exploited to make lights annoyingly flicker for hours. Jonathan Knudsen, head of global research at Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center, led a team that discovered the vulnerabilities by fuzzing Ikea's Tradfri bulbs and their gateway via Zigbee Light Link, the wireless protocol the devices use to communicate and receive commands.
Like any other innovation, the integration of IoT technology in smart buildings will bring benefits as well as more and newer risks. The market for smart building technologies continues to grow at even faster rates.
The internet constantly changes as new technologies are developed, and vulnerabilities are discovered. At the same time, organizations expand their operations that interact with the Internet.
Like any other innovation, the integration of IoT technology in smart buildings will bring benefits as well as more and newer risks. The market for smart building technologies continues to grow at even faster rates.
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Phishing actors are abusing LinkedIn's Smart Link feature to bypass email security products and successfully redirect targeted users to phishing pages that steal payment information.Smart Link is a feature reserved for LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Enterprise users, allowing them to send a pack of up to 15 documents using a single trackable link.
Recent Capgemini research revealed that the vast majority of organizations do not have device visibility at their smart factory locations. The use of legacy machinery, designed before cybersecurity was a key element, has opened networks to attack.
The biggest names in smart home have come together to agree on a common set of standards that will allow for greater interoperability, security, and reliability in these devices. In this Help Net Security video, Mike Nelson, VP of IoT Security at DigiCert, talks about the Matter protocol.
All our devices and gadgets are going online, just like our computers did. Once we've successfully connected our devices to the internet, do we have any hope of keeping them, and ourselves, safe from the dangers that lurk beneath the digital waters?