Tuesday 31 May 2016

How hackers are making your smart home safer

From PCs and phones and connected cars, we’ve learnt one immutable fact: if you can remotely access something, sooner or later somebody will try to hack it. One of our favourite examples involves the Satis smart toilets in Japan, whose Bluetooth connections could be hijacked in order to harass and soak their occupants.

We laughed, but then we thought: what if that were our toilet, and we were the ones getting soaked?

Say hello to the downside of smart home technology. But it turns out that some of the people with the power to attack your intelligent, connected abode are the very people standing at the gateway, finding the exploits before those with bad intentions ever breach the fortress walls – they’re the hackers protecting your smart home. For the full article click here 



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