SMART home technology are connected by the Internet of Things, have inherent risks of security breaches. Hackers targeted unsecured devices that includes SMART home technology, and infected them with malicious code to form a botnet and carry out the attack. A study estimates that at least 15 percent of home routers are unsecured with weak or default passwords. There are over 13 billion interconnected digital and electronic devices across the world; the October 2016 DDoS attack showed that a small percentage of vulnerable devices can have a devastating impact. SMART home technology SMART home technology use devices connected to the Internet of things
The Culture of Connectivity The Culture of Connectivity The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media is a book by José van Dijck published by Oxford University Press in 2013 on social media platforms and their history. The author critically considers the histories of five social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia. Van Dijck's approach is based on the premise that to understand the full weight of social media, their technological dimensions should be connected to the social and the cultural. The title of the work alludes to how the rise of social media has created a culture in which