Ripple20 is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad set of vulnerabilities: Earlier this week, Israeli security firm JSOF discovered 19 vulnerabilities in software created in the late 90s by a company called Treck. The vulnerabilities vary, but some … [Read more...]
Podcast: Lennar’s smart home and why it dumped Apple HomeKit
Like the rest of the tech media, Kevin and I kick off the show with a discussion about data collection and privacy in light of the allegations against Cambridge Analytica. We also talk about smart home lock in, Alexa's new "brief" mode, shopping on … [Read more...]
FogHorn is taking industrial IoT processing to the edge
Edge computing is all the rage now. The idea that the petabytes of data generated by industrial processes or even things like autonomous cars will travel to the cloud and back has always been in doubt. Issues associated with latency, bandwidth costs … [Read more...]
GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn’t scale
This week Reuters did a deep dive into problems with GE's industrial IoT efforts. The company had taken a two-month "time out" to fix problems with its Predix software platform designed for the industrial IoT and has asked executives to cut costs. GE … [Read more...]
What exactly is the edge of the network?
Spend time with anyone offering enterprise or industrial internet of things products and you'll encounter the term edge: edge devices, the network edge or edge analytics. But the term by itself is almost useless because depending on who you are … [Read more...]