Smartphones, watches, televisions and fitness trackers could be used to hold people to ransom over personal data, cyber security experts have warned. Ransomware, which makes devices unusable until their owners…
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Amazon resists Echo murder evidence call
Amazon is continuing to resist efforts by prosecutors in a US murder case to obtain recordings from one of its Echo smart speakers. In its first formal legal response to…
Smart homes haunted by the cyber-ghost of Christmas future
This year delivered a chilling warning as we witnessed distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a scale that few thought possible. By Professor Alan Woodward, Department of Computing, University…