Monster toaster

In a world of increasingly connected gadgets, even a smart toaster can turn on you. That's the risk of the phenomenon called Internet of Things

The internet was literally designed to withstand nuclear weapons. But, as Jeff Jarmos of Salesforce once pointed out, it is vulnerable to toasters! Irony apart, this is literally true. The internet stayed functional through 9/11 and tsunamis but it can be taken down by malware delivered via smart toasters.  The potential danger of an attack targeting the Internet of Things (IoT), or devices that work unsupervised, is immense. Avinash Chugh, technology principal at ThoughtWorks, a software consultancy, says: “An IoT attack could bring down a city’s power supply, ...

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Monster toaster