In mid-February 2024, Microsoft announced that it would be retiring its Azure IoT Central platform. The notice from Microsoft was covered by a number tech media sources, such as The Register, which ...

Azure IoT Central, Filikins noted, is particularly important to large-scale IoT deployments, allowing users to manage a wide range of different device types, from LPWAN (low-power wide area network) ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...