IoT appliances can perform various functions by connecting to the Internet, but sometimes being connected to the Internet poses risks. Harishankar, a software developer from India, reported his ...

Forget your phone spying on you — maybe it’s your vacuum you should really be worried about. In a post on his blog Small World, the computer programmer and electronics enthusiast Harishankar Narayanan ...

This software engineer was a happy user of an iLife A11 vacuum cleaner for nearly a year, until he discovered a constant stream of data being beamed to China. But that wasn’t the worst of it.

A tech enthusiast found his smart vacuum was secretly transmitting data and even remotely disabling itself after he blocked its communication Forget the usual concerns about your phone listening ...

We would have enjoyed [Harishankar’s] tear down of a robot vacuum cleaner, even if it didn’t have a savage twist at the end. Turns out, the company deliberately bricked his smart vacuum. Like many of ...