Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
You probably don’t worry about hackers compromising the security settings of your refrigerator, but its time that you should. Researchers have found a flaw that is leaving Gmail credentials vulnerable to cyber criminals. The future of the Internet of Things promises an easy and convenient way of life, but it also opened a whole new flood of problems starting with privacy and cyber security. There is definitely a threat when everything about you, can easily be snatched by criminals on the web and it seems like technology is outrunning security measures in terms of development. The 8-inch WiFi enabled display of the Samsung smart fridge allows users to receive messages, stream Twitter or Facebook feeds, browse the web and other functions that regular smartphones and tablets can do, but it is a two-way street. It lets information come in from the web but with it comes all the security threats. At this year’s DefCon hacker conference, security researchers from Pen Test Partners exposed the connectivity flaws of smart refrigerators particularly of the SamsungRF28HMELBSR model. According to their study, the home appliance is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. In this kind of cyber attack, the hacker can intercept the signal sent by the […]
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