
Is your smart home safe or has it become an evil botnet?
Spam for lunch, anyone? (Photo: Samsung smart fridge/Getty Images) When you see headlines like ‘Fridge caught sending 750,000 spam emails,’ you have to wonder. By: Lloyd Alter It’s nice to think that when you connect your fridge to the Internet of Things nobody is going to care how much milk you have, so why would anyone want to hack into it? Does anyone really care what you’re watching on your smart TV? Evidently there’s a lot going on in your smart fridge than just chilling. It’s no different from a computer when it comes to being compromised and used for … Continue reading Is your smart home safe or has it become an evil botnet?