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Cybersecurity was again one of the big issues in the internet of things (IoT) this week with the discovery that a Swann security camera was found to have a major security loophole.
Each Swann device uses a hard-coded serial number to communicate with its cloud service, provided by New York firm OzVision. Researchers simply replaced a serial number with another using proxy software to model network traffic.
Low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) appear to be the future of IoT, connecting hundreds or thousands of data points across a city or country.