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Techspective – There are a variety of potential benefits for cities that embrace technology. “Smart cities” can implement technology to streamline functionality and improve efficiency in a number of ways from detecting when a public parking lot is full to enabling remote wireless control of traffic signals. Of course, connecting the infrastructure of a city and making it remotely accessible and manageable also exposes it to potential risk and malicious activity.

ZDnet – As researchers turn their attention to vehicles, we’ve seen everything from sending drivers into a ditch to brakes which suddenly won’t work.

The Daily Swig – The UK government’s new code of practice for Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been widely welcomed as a step towards implementing security by design – though many within the industry say it doesn’t go far enough to protecting consumers or organizations.

Dark Reading – Researchers at Black Hat Europe will detail denial-of-service and other flaws in MQTT, CoAP machine-to-machine communications protocols that imperil industrial and other IoT networks online.

Financial Times – It took Robert Hickey and his team of researchers just two days to do what the aerospace industry had insisted was nigh impossible. On September 21 2016, the US Department of Homeland Security official hacked into the systems of a Boeing 757 passenger aircraft parked in the airport in Atlantic City, New Jersey.