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Sign into your accountSmart Home Hackers: What Real Estate Pros Should Know
April 21 2017
Is smart home technology putting you and your clients at risk? Purported to bring convenience, security, and improved connectivity, smart services are instead bringing unauthorized surveillance, loss of privacy, and compromised data, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT).
What's the IoT?
It's the combined/synergistic use of mobile apps, cloud storage, big data, automation, sensors and more that are attached to everyday items, processes and systems—part-and-parcel of everything from your phone and laptop to your TV, appliances, door locks, and security. Case(s) in point: Recent WikiLeaks on the CIA's (and other hackers') ability to spy on you via TV – not to mention last October's massive, internet service disrupting DDoS attack.
The IoT-DDoS Conundrum
Each of these items relies on the cloud to operate, either for analysis or as a communications path to other devices, forming a "botnet" of devices. But there is no magical "cloud" – only someone else's computer, such as company Dyn's DNS system – the one hacked last October. Protection from botnets, to date, is woefully insufficient, and devices are so prolific that if a mere portion of those in homes were comprised, it could prove disastrous. The best protection? Keeping these devices out, as even password protected gadgets are NOT secure, and informing clients of smart home risks.