9 Steps to Protect Yourself From Credit Card Fraud

Credit card fraud in America accounts for 47 percent of the worldwide total, and 76 percent of the data breaches[1]. In 2014, approximately 31.8 million Americans had their credit cards breached, a 300 percent rise in one year. It seems that as fast as technology moves to protect us, hackers are just as fervently seeking…

Securing the Internet of Things

I wrote recently about the consumer-IoT’s “basket of remotes” problem, the realization that the growing divergence of a “hodge-podge of ad hoc solutions managed through fragmented systems” risks needlessly complicating consumer’s already busy lives. Fortunately, industrial and commercial sources such as Advantech are already well ahead of their consumer counterparts in delivering comprehensive integrated IoT…