… "This activity demonstrates how exploited vulnerabilities in widely used network devices can be leveraged by sophisticated hostile actors," said Paul Chicheter, director of operations at the NCSC. …
… Police officers—some of whom have made it clear they’re not above falsifying warrant information to invade people’s homes—could use the tech to conduct home and vehicle searches without people’s knowledge or consent. …
… Over the last year, several companies have launched consumer-oriented mesh network products. We have covered some of them here already, like Eero and Luma . Since then some big names have joined the fray, including Google with its WiFi home-automation-friendly router , and Orbi from Netgear. …
… While your home router is a fairly simple piece of hardware it only really has to ferry packets between your home network and your ISP's network , the data center routers that make up the internet backbone are seriously beefy machines that must route hundreds of gigabits of data per second, every s… …
… The alternative is to create tailored direct bridges between the home and roaming network Sprint and C Spire Wireless have done this to provide LTE roaming for C Spire customers , which is horribly inefficient and can be prohibitively expensive to do for all roaming partners. …
… Cable and cell networks are also a good example. Cable TV started off as just that -- a network of coaxial cables carrying analog TV signals. Over time, the networks switched to digital, and thus became a viable pipe for any binary data. …
Perhaps one of the most perplexing aspects of modern "smart home" technology is how willing people are to install internet-connected cameras all over their homes. …
… The new app will give you additional information on your latency, packet loss rate, and whether your home network is properly configured for online play. …
There are a lot of reasons you may want to set up a video monitoring system for your home or business. Perhaps you want to complement a home security system, in light of the over two million home break-ins that occur annually in the USA. …
… VoidSec writes: WebRTC allows requests to be made to STUN servers which return the “hidden” home IP-address as well as local network addresses for the system that is being used by the user. …