Could your DVR, connected refrigerator and other smart devices become a pollutant akin to auto emissions? Not to sound like an alarmist, but there is a possibility that this scenario could play out. Last fall we saw what happens when attackers take over unsecure IoT devices and use them as an attack vector: CNN, Twitter, Netflix and other popular websites were taken offline for a large portion of the U.S. Being unable to access those sites was definitely an inconvenience for people and a somewhat serious issue for the business that lost revenue during the downtime. Overall, though, the…
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