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Comment on This Apocalypse Brought to You by the IoT by Max Maxfield
['Steven Leibson']
Comments for EEJournal
The Lyons’ family was the victim of a ghastly fraud, brought to their living room by the poor security built into nearly every IoT device.
Before the IoT Security Tsunami Hits.”) It’s not really a problem of the security technology, it’s a failure of the social engineering assumptions built into the security technology.
In my opinion, these incidents do not represent breakdowns of the IoT devices’ security stack.
It’s worth repeating some advice from McAffee’s solution brief titled “Secure IoT Devices to Protect Against Attacks”:“Attackers follow the path of least resistance to gain control of IoT devices.
It’s really up to each of us in the design community to take a stand against the kind of gross vulnerability we’re already building into IoT devices.
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