In-brief: Researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller are demonstrating wireless attacks on connected vehicles that can alter critical functions like braking and acceleration. (Added comments from Chris Valasek July 21, 2015 12:15 ET)
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Security Firms See Dollars In Taming IoT Insecurity
In-brief: Security firms Trustwave and IOActive both announced services promising to help aspiring IoT product firms secure their products, more evidence that the Internet of Things is producing secondary markets.
Opinion: The IoT’s Wild West is Your Home Network
In-brief: Jackson Shaw of Dell warns that home networks are like the Wild West frontier when it comes to threats to the Internet of Things. Your broadband router is the covered wagon.
Will IoT Spell The End of Freemium?
In-brief: will growing fatigue over data collection by marketing firms and the advent of IoT spell the end of the “freemium” business model? The answer is: maybe, yes.
Update: Risk Lurks at Autonomous Driving’s Fuzzy Edge
In-brief: autonomous vehicle makers are looking for ways to manage liability by getting drivers to “OK” autonomous actions. But is that the best approach?
