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VentureBeat | December 18, 2018

Cybersecurity firm McAfee said that the cybercriminal underworld is generating 480 new threats per minute. That’s one of the details in the new McAfee Labs Threats Report: December 2018. McAfee reported that internet of things malware was up 73 percent in the third quarter, while cryptocurrency mining malware was up 71 percent, even as the value of many cryptocurrencies have declined. Meanwhile, the ripple effect of the 2017 takedowns of Hansa and AlphaBay dark web markets continued as ent...

VentureBeat | February 25, 2019

Amazon Web Services will be integrated with Sprint's distributed IoT core network. Sprint will bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage and Internet of Things (IoT) services to its Curiosity IoT platform, the telecom provider announced on Monday. The move will offer enterprise customers optimized traffic routing, processing, and storage of IoT data, according to a press release. Businesses are increasingly using IoT for tasks such as detecting and troubleshooting issues remotely, predicting m...

VentureBeat | February 25, 2019

The phrase “edge computing” might bear all the earmarks of an annoying buzzword, but don’t let that distract from the market’s upward momentum — global internet of things (IoT) revenue is forecast to hit $1.7 trillion by 2019, when the number of IoT devices connected to the internet will exceed 23 billion, according to analysts at CB Insights. But despite the industry’s long and continued growth, not all organizations think they’re ready for it — i...

venturebeat | July 10, 2019

IoT is a rapidly growing area of technology — but not as rapidly growing as analysts expected it to be back in 2015.Spending on IoT is 70% behind where research firm McKinsey predicted in 2015 it would be by now — at $37 billion, it’s a fraction of the earlier projected $122 billion. McKinsey senior partner Mark Patel believes the lag in IoT adoption has less to do with the nature of technology itself, and more to do with how businesses work. “The data, self-reported in o...