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Kitchen Chores for 2018: Wash Dishes, Block Malware

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As Samsung Electronics Co. and General Electric Co. make refrigerators that can tell you’re out of milk and ovens that can be switched on with a mobile phone, Eva Chen warns such advances may also let hackers into your home.

The president of Trend Micro Inc., the Tokyo-based developer of security software, said threats from hacking will spread as appliances, cameras and other devices connect to the Web. She’s betting that protection for the so-called Internet of things will be among the main reasons her company will more than double its number of users in three years.