Posted on 01/17/2014 6:19:17 AM PST by MeshugeMikey
Security researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered the very first wide-scale hack that involved television sets and at least one refrigerator.
Yes, a fridge.
This is being hailed as the first home appliance "botnet" and the first cyberattack from the Internet of Things.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
GOOGLE will be involved in the Calorie Intake Monitoring System via of the Contact Lens Glucose Monitoring device....allegedly already a reality.
imagine having a brown eyed blue tooth !
Yeah but hey, they could tell how many eggs were left from their iPhone...
possible Red Drwaf ping...(Toastie the toaster??) IDK...
Cheers! :)
Way ahead of you...
But if you just spent a ton of money on your new WiFi enabled refrigerator, why wouldn't you give it your password so you can constantly monitor your produce drawer temperature.?
I'm sorry, Dave, but I've been talking to your scale this morning. You are only getting fresh vegetables and water until you've lost 20 pounds.
Surely none of those WiFi routers have an embedded chip or code that allows someone to hack in. ; )
Lol, yeah.
The article’s hyperbole so it’s fine to joke about it. The gist of it is they were reviewing spamm mail and noticed a significant percentage came from wifi-enabled appliances. Such as LGfridge1534214@usersISP.com. The hackers just used available network IDs on an unsecured network to send spamm mail from.
If the business network is hacked and the hackers are only using it to send spamm mail I’d say the business has a pretty low threat surface.
yeah - my appliances been acting real funny lately
The dvd/vcr keeps flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00
Thinks its some secret code.......
Since MS Windows first had networking embedded access, data collection and retrieval has been ubiquitous.
Our local news did a hacker piece on cell phone charges, yep, they now can hack your smart devices from your chargers.
So don’t SHARE!
I need some toast.
Yes.
> Im guessing more likely a MAC address on the local lan
You're confused. MAC addresses and IP addresses are very different things, and a networked device must have one of each.
Every network-enabled device has a MAC address; it's an identifier in the embedded network interface chip in the device. It is by definition unique universally, since it's assigned by the manufacturer of the device when it's built.
An IP address is assigned (or configured) when the device joins a network, such as the local network (LAN) in your home/office, or the Internet.
The IP address has to be unique globally ONLY if it is connected directly to the Internet. In that case, it gets a "public" IP.
But if it's on your home/office LAN, which is configured using a NAT router (e.g. a home/office wireless router), then the device's IP address does NOT have to be globally unique. Rather it is "private", and only needs to be unique on that local network.
I read a SF novel where a character got an email from her spare blue jeans, wondering why she'd been wearing the other pair for so long.
ahaha I dont doubt it.
although my computer is a MAC Pro...I have no “smart devices” whatsoever
people regularly ask why I dont upgrade my phone...
...but configuring the fridge to talk on your WiFi network is one of the first things you’ll do when installed. This is “Trojan Horse” in a very real sense.
OK, my bad. . .
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