With technology so advance, it’s no surprise that IoT is being applied in just about everything we do. From having your thermostats turn on the heater as you’re approaching home, and your toaster letting you know your toast is ready. Who doesn’t want their toaster telling them that their toast is perfectly golden brown? All this opens new doors for hackers to exploit any possible vulnerabilities especially with IoT being so popular.
Malware
Since ordinary appliances and device now have some degree of computing power, and some with full blow operating system running on them, it’s safely to think that this could be problematic if there were to be vulnerabilities.
Lack of Updates and Inconvenience
Typically IOT devices like wifi routers will hardly ever get updated from their default by either consumer or manufacturer. Furthermore, wifi routers out there are on average 5 years behind in terms of software to their hardware
