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The Internet of Things: Risks in the Connected Home

May 17, 2016

Four billion internet-connected devices promise to take our homes to an unprecedented level of comfort. But this new digital convenience takes its toll on private lives. As we have seen in the early stages of IoT development, gadgets designed for our home can talk with each other, yet they risk being overheard when communicating sensitive data. Bitdefender believes the IoT can reach its full potential only if interactions between users, devices, applications and the cloud are authentic and secure. In this light, researchers from Bitdefender Labs examined four Internet-connected consumer devices and found several common vulnerabilities. The analysis reveals that current authentication mechanisms of internet-connected devices can easily be bypassed to expose smart households and their inhabitants to privacy theft.

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Wiliot

At Wiliot, we bring connectivity and intelligence to everyday products and packaging; things previously disconnect from the Internet of Things. The Wiliot Platform combines cloud services and IoT Pixels, computing elements that can power themselves by harvesting radio frequency energy. This revolutionary mixture of cloud and semiconductor technology is being used by some of the world’s largest brands, food, and pharmaceutical companies to change how we make, distribute, sell, use and recycle products. Our investors include Amazon, Verizon, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, PepsiCo, and Softbank.

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IXON Whitepaper Security 2022

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Despite the best efforts of developers, embedded and IoT systems are usually deployed with bugs remaining in their code. A development team introduces an average of 120 bugs per 1,000 lines of code during development. Approximately 5 percent, or 6 bugs per 1,000 lines of code, typically remain in the shipped software.

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Internet of Things for Telecom Engineers

whitePaper | February 11, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer the future: it is the new reality moving telecommunications forward. The IoT enables physical objects to see, hear, think, and perform jobs by having them “talk” to each other, share information, and coordinate decisions. The number of internet-enabled objects has surpassed the Earth’s population. Today, the IoT connects everything from HVAC thermostats and smart homes to transportation, healthcare, industrial automation, and emergency response equipment. As the prevalence of IoT innovations grow, telecom leaders must embrace the opportunities, and challenges, posed by a more connected future.

The Internet of Things: Risks in the Connected Home