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If you own a SmartTV, you might not be the only one controlling it
Smart TV owners, be careful with your data! A study by Yossi Oren and Angelos Keromytis, two researchers based at Columbia University’s Network Security Laboratory, warns of the of the…
[FOCUS SMART CITY] Doha: Qatar’s capital invests in a “smart future”
Qatar’s capital Doha set itself ambitious technological and environmental objectives to reach the status of “smart city” ahead of the 2022 Football World Cup it is hosting. Entitled “Tasmu”, or…
[FOCUS SMART CITY] Montreal : Innovations laboratory
Following the national “Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge” competition that it won, with a coquettish sum of 50 million dollars, Montreal has set itself the ambition of responding to the problems…
[FOCUS SMART CITY] “Sensors and connected streetlights: when Apollo, God of Light, sets out on the IoT”
Introduction Dominated by the Acropolis, remnants of an era when Mycenaean civilization was at its height, the Greek capital seems to have risen from its ashes, after having gone through…
[FOCUS SMART CITY] Behind the beach, come and explore Barcelona’s connected streets!
Introduction “Whether houses are representative of a city, they are the citizens that create the city,” wrote Rousseau in his Social Contract, an idea that the Catalan capital has fully…
[FOCUS SMART CITY] Milan smart city: top of the class in Europe
The city of Milan has been able to leverage its investments from the 2015 Universal Expo to strengthen its urban and technological redevelopment policy with a view…
[FOCUS SMART CITY] Oslo : connected and ecological smart city
If Norway has been voted “most digitalized country” by the Finnish Etla Institute, it is because connectivity is one of the major and essential challenges…
[ARTICLE] Mirai…is back
Mirai, from ancient history? One would have thought it was a closed case. Discovered by MalwareMustDIe researchers in August 2016, Mirai malware had launched record denial of service attacks. In…
[AWARENESS] “Clean Desk” and safety policy
“For World Desktop Tidying Day, in March 21, 2019, digital.security offers some good practices for a clean desk that resists attackers” It is not only in cyberspace that…
[ARTICLE] Sigfox security
Introduction Sigfox is a proprietary wireless technology developed by the French start-up of the same name. The technology operates on free radio bands, dedicated to civil use, called ISM…