Glimpse into the Future of Routers: Wi-Fi Mesh. Voice Control. Smart Home
For home insurers, IoT brings tremendous challenges, and opportunities. It brings the opportunity to: reduce claims, predict premiums more accurately, and build better relationships with homeowners. But it also lowers demand for insurance as IoT devices make houses safer reducing the need for insurance. Home insurers will need to go...
Smart devices have many advantages over traditional ones. You can control them remotely from a phone, they can collect information about your home that enables you to save money and make it more secure, and you can automate when your devices – like heating or lighting – turn on and...
The number of smart devices in our homes is rising rapidly, but the recent malware attacks using smart devices have highlighted the huge security issues that must be solved before they can safely be in every living room. Smart device vulnerability and consequences Increasing consumer acceptance for smart devices is...
We’ve had quite a lot of questions about what the differences are between ZigBee and Z-Wave and in this blog post we hope to be able to clarify things without involving too much of the underlying technical details. Some key points require a little bit of technical understanding though, but we’ll try to keep things simple.
You have probably read a lot about smart home and are really interested. Still, you haven’t bought a smart hub – or home automation hub – and started automating your home yet because you are not entirely convinced how useful it is going to be for your home. Alternatively, you...
We have been at a number of trade shows lately, and it has been interesting talking to people, learning just how many still say they have never downloaded their router’s app or interacted with the functionality besides perhaps pressing the restart button. We asked why and a couple of answers...
SXSW is coming soon, March 10 -19th and Securifi is an invited speaker, exhibitor, and also an award nominee. South by Southwest® (SXSW®), designed to celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film and music industries, is now one of the most important meeting places for professional in these industries. It features...
The recent spate of Mirai botnet attacks has brought into sharp focus the vulnerability of many connected home devices. One example of which is the massive DDoS attacks on Internet service company Dyn, which brought down popular websites such as Netflix, Twitter, and the BBC. In total, Mirai infected more...
If you love your Amazon Alexa and enjoy using voice commands to tell your gadgets what to do, you can now do that with your WiFi router. Some of you may be thinking, ‘but I don’t do anything with my WiFi router. I don’t like it. I set it up...
The Internet has made access to hardcore pornography, violent videos, and the ability to strike up friendships with strangers a simple process for kids. Offline restaurants and bars ask for an ID to verify your age, but online there are no such checks. While many adult sites might have a...
There has been a lot of news and hype around the potential of the Mirai botnet to wreak havoc. Unfortunately, that hype appears to be justified. Besides, the attack that took down the Internet service company, Dyn, and in doing so Netflix, Twitter, the BBC, and many other leading websites...
