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How to Enhance Your Home Network Security

Heimadal Security

The only measure most people use to protect their home wireless network nowadays is to set up a password and prevent neighbors and other people from taking control of your data. But we have to be more serious about home network security and do more than just setting a simple password.

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Friends Don't Let Friends Use Dodgy WiFi: Introducing Ubiquiti's Dream Machine and FlexHD

Troy Hunt

I bought a security gateway to do DHCP, a couple of switches for all my connected things, 5 access points for my wireless things and a Cloud Key to control them all. But that's pretty limited compared to the complete UniFi ecosystem I'm running at home. I went overboard and I don't regret it one bit!

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Wireless Sensor Network for IoT Security

Security Boulevard

We are very familiar with concepts such as “smart home”, “smart city”. That’s when these problems appear, such as: huge costs, difficulty to synchronize devices, security for data. The post Wireless Sensor Network for IoT Security appeared first on Speranza.

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Western Digital took its services offline due to a security breach

Security Affairs

Western Digital disclosed a security breach, according to the company an unauthorized party gained access to multiple systems. Western Digital has shut down several of its services after discovering a security breach, the company disclosed that an unauthorized party gained access to multiple systems. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

Since then, IoT devices have become widely and deeply integrated into our homes, businesses, utilities and transportations systems. And yet our pervasive deployment of IoT systems has also vastly expanded the cyber attack surface of business networks, especially in just the past few years. This has brought us many benefits.

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Google to Fix Location Data Leak in Google Home, Chromecast

Krebs on Security

New research shows that Web sites can run a simple script in the background that collects precise location data on people who have a Google Home or Chromecast device installed anywhere on their local network. For my home Internet connection, the IP geolocation is only accurate to about 3 miles.

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Trends in connected homes in 2021 – Improved security and connectivity

CyberSecurity Insiders

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. It’s becoming more popular in 2021 to have a smart home with connected devices capable of communicating with each other. It’s expected that smart home spending will reach more than $141 billion by 2023 , and the number of smart homes will surpass 300 million by 2023.