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Some Easy Tips to Make Your Smart Home Devices Safer While smart devices can make our lives better, they are not always built with the best security. If you have any IoT (Internet of Things) devices such as Smart TV’s, Intelligent lights, Webcams or other smart devices/appliances in your home, you need to follow some simple rules to improve your security. Remember that the security of your smart devices is just as important as the security you apply to your laptop, desktop or smartphone. When you buy a smart device, make sure that the manufacturer regularly releases security, software and/or firmware updates for their devices. ALWAYS change the default account info and if the device allows you to do so, change the default username as well as the password. All passwords should be at least 8 characters long...

If you had some issues today with your internet connection either being slow or not connecting/working at all, it was more than likely due to the fact that Amazon had an outage with their S3 Web Services. If you are interested in reading more about this, here are a couple of links: TechCrunch Business Insider At this point in time, Amazon is announcing that everything is working nominally at their end....