crp Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I'd put this in the humor and/or interesting catagory forum if it wasn't for the chaos caused, https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 That is kind of awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Comment from that article: Quote PEnns said: Somebody remind please, again: Why does something like toothbrush need to be connected?? People are really asking for trouble with this kind of "let's connect everything...because it's so cool"! To get on the toothbrush leader board... duh. Who woulda thought having millions of unsecured devices connected to the internet would cause problems? The devolution is accelerating. I went through 3 electric toothbrushes (non-smart type) before deciding that old-school manual toothbrushes were just as effective, more reliable, and much cheaper. Currently using this, best toothbrush ever: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-secure-your-hearing-aid-tony-ortega-mis-mba/ If some hacker wants to listen in on my conversations they are welcome to it. BTW my hearing aid manufacturer Demant was hacked already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 5 minutes ago, raymac46 said: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-secure-your-hearing-aid-tony-ortega-mis-mba/ If some hacker wants to listen in on my conversations they are welcome to it. BTW my hearing aid manufacturer Demant was hacked already. Did you atleast get super hearing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Well, I can't hear without the hearing aids so I guess they improve matters. It doesn't make you confident though when your IoT manufacturer is itself a target of a botnet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Well the problem is we are in the wild west of security with IOT devices. Its like back in the 90s when there was the gap between the internet and antivirus. Back when people would get like 10 toolbars in their browsers and such. Currently there is zero security on IOT devices and that is including the "security" ones like cameras and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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