Is your smart home safe or has it become an evil botnet?

‘It’s nice to think that when you connect your fridge to the Internet of Things nobody is going to care how much milk you have, so why would anyone want to hack into it? Does anyone really care what you’re watching on your smart TV?

Evidently there’s a lot going on in your smart fridge than just chilling. It’s no different from a computer when it comes to being compromised and used for cyber attacks. Security company Proofpoint discovered a large-scale attack in late December that “compromised home-networking routers, connected multi-media centers, televisions and at least one refrigerator,” sending out 750,000 spam emails from more than 100,000 devices.

It appears that owners of smart appliances and devices are open to attack if the router can be bypassed, and most people use really bad passwords. (I just changed mine!) Michael Osterman, principal analyst at Osterman Research, said in the news release:’

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