{"id":30539,"date":"2016-09-26T19:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/terrorist-in-the-machine-u-s-doj-fears-iot-for-security"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:34:41","slug":"terrorist-in-the-machine-u-s-doj-fears-iot-for-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/terrorist-in-the-machine-u-s-doj-fears-iot-for-security","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist in the machine: U.S. DOJ fears IoT for security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8regjdNUCzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The huge wave of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled devices has the U.S. government worried that the technology harbors lurking security threats.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/09\/how-will-terrorists-use-internet-things-justice-department-trying-figure-out\/131381\/?oref=d-channeltop\">Defense One article<\/a>, the U.S. Department of Justice has joined other agencies in evaluating IoT technology for national security risks.<\/p>\n<p>And with up to 50 billion connected devices coming online by 2020, <a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2016\/08\/08\/internet-things-invite-malicious-software-home-dl1\/\">the government is scrambling to assess threats from the fast evolving technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2016\/09\/26\/terrorist-machine-u-s-justice-dept-sees-iot-security-threat-cl4\/\">http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2016\/09\/26\/terrorist-machine-u-s-justic...hreat-cl4\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The huge wave of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled devices has the U.S. government worried that the technology harbors lurking security threats. According to a Defense One article, the U.S. Department of Justice has joined other agencies in evaluating IoT technology for national security risks. And with up to 50 billion connected devices coming online [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418,1492,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39255,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30539\/revisions\/39255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}