Internet of Things Could Bring On Attack of the Killer Toaster Botnet

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Oct 11, 2013

One thing that few vendors have talked about is security for the Internet of things. At the SecTor security conference in Toronto this week, Ross Barrett, senior manager for Security Engineering at Rapid7, said that from where he sits, security is an afterthought with the Internet of things.

That’s not a good thing.

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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