{"id":60124,"date":"2020-09-27T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=60124"},"modified":"2020-09-27T23:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:57:37","slug":"60124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=60124","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Modern high technology strikes again<\/p>\n

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This Hacked Coffee Maker Demands Ransom and Demonstrates a Terrifying Implication About the IoT (Internet of Things)<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that the Internet of Things is full of insecure gadgets. All you need is one high profile incident to be flooded with terrifying headlines about how everything from robotic vacuum cleaners to smart sex toys can be hacked to spy on you. However, apparently some devices like Smarter\u2019s IoT coffee machine can also be reprogrammed to go haywire and demand ransom from unsuspecting users.<\/p>\n

This week, Martin Hron, a researcher with the security firm Avast, reverse engineered a $250 Smarter coffee maker as part of a thought experiment to potentially uncover an important flaw in the infrastructure of smart devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was asked to prove a myth, call it a suspicion, that the threat to IoT devices is not just to access them via a weak router or exposure to the internet, but that an IoT device itself is vulnerable and can be easily owned without owning the network or the router,\u201d he wrote in a blog post detailing his methods.<\/p>\n

His experiment was a success: After a week of tinkering, he effectively turned the coffee maker into a ransomware machine. When the user tries to connect it to their home network, it triggers the machine to turn on the burner, spew hot water, endlessly spin the bean grinder, and display a pre-programmed ransom message while beeping incessantly……..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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