Francesco Muzzi

Let’s look at your home the way a police detective—or a burglar—would. Where are the blind spots and vulnerabilities? What design details could be changed to make a place safer?

Burglary borrows equally from the skill sets of a technical science and theatrical improv; it follows careful rules yet just as easily abandons those rules for a spur-of-the-moment smash and grab.

You’re a single parent with a young child or a wealthy businessperson with a very public profile, and you’re concerned about recent developments in the news.

If a family’s home is their castle, as the saying goes, some homeowners have begun to take that sentiment quite literally.

Is that a drone hovering near your property line? Drew Porter’s pocket-size radio device for compromising entire smart homes can be effective three or more blocks away from a target.

Hidden among the many benefits of a Smart Home are subtle vulnerabilities that today’s security researchers are just beginning to understand.

The burglars’ tools of tomorrow will look more like robots and radios than lockpicks and crowbars. A security expert weighs in.

A team of graduate student researchers at the University of Washington, led by Tamara Denning, now an assistant professor at the University of Utah, wrote what is known in their field as an “attack…

It’s no longer sufficient simply to lock your front door and close your windows before leaving your house.

Grid-scale storage may be revolutionizing the market for clean energy.