This IoT recap features the latest in edge computing news, IoT security, enterprise IoT, the Industrial Internet, and projects for IoT hobbyists.
There wasn’t really a cohesive theme in IoT articles this month. Hence, I have masterfully titled this IoT recap as a grab bag. As an overview, IoT security was in the news again with new threats (including a potentially worrisome variant of the Mirai botnet that was recently discovered) and new solutions (this one using blockchain!). There was some decent career advice as well, and a number of things for tinkerers, enterprise IoT developers, and Industrial Internet specialists to get excited about.
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Hey, remember that time when Mirai took down a chunk of the Internet by using barely secured IoT devices? Boy, that was a productive day last year. “Shockingly,” (with massive air quotes), such a productive attack vector is still in use! Late last month, it was reported that a Chinese firm discovered an active variant targeting devices made by ZyXEL Communications using default credentials.
Let’s see if 2018 is going to be the actual year of IoT security.
All right. Touché.
Well, a startup called Xage just exited stealth with their blockchain aimed at securing Industrial Internet systems. Take a look for yourself to see if this is the next big thing in IIoT security — and if it could be a blueprint for securing other massive IoT networks as well.
While you people living in the southern hemisphere are lapping up the sun, we up north are feeling the bite of a winter that seems to be much colder than the last few. It’s probably got something to do with the change in the El Niño/La Niña cycle, but we don’t have time for that.
We’ve got mad science to do.
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