Why bother with fancy SCADA malware when you could just DDoS the grid.
The “Internet of Things” was a mistake.
The researchers don’t actually point to any vulnerabilities in specific household devices, or suggest how exactly they might be hacked. Instead, they start from the premise that a large number of those devices could somehow be compromised and silently controlled by a hacker.
Wow, it’s nothing.
Unsecured Devices on an Unsecured network is “nothing?”
Shit man, most folks don’t bother setting Passwords, so all an unscrupulous fella needs to do is pick a factory password.
“Most of the devices, Proofpoint found, weren’t subject to a sophisticated attack. Instead, misconfiguration and the use of default passwords had left them open on public networks and therefore vulnerable to this kind of attack.”
So yeah, it is something, and it’s bad.
why do we even put computers inside of things that worked perfectly fine without them
ifesbob 