Two SoftBank Corp.-backed companies are teaming up to thwart hackers pummeling some of the cyberworld’s most vulnerable targets: lightbulbs and thermostats.
Protecting such mundane internet-connected devices is the purpose of a partnership announced Wednesday between U.K.-based Arm, the chip-design technology company that SoftBank bought for $32 billion in 2016, and Boston-based cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which SoftBank has invested in since 2015.
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