Smart home Security Worrying (turn)

Smart home The most important thing is to improve the safety of the family, but if now tell you that the smart home itself is also a security problem, how would you feel? Have to admit that the strengthening of family security is the smart home "responsibility", and now security problems have become one of the most serious problems of smart home equipment.

Earlier, HP's Fortify Application Security department researched and analyzed the 10 most popular consumer IoT products on the market and found that there were 250 different security vulnerabilities in the 10 most popular smart home devices. These 10 products are the most common devices in smart home, including "TV, webcam, home thermostats, remote sockets, sprinkler controllers, control of multiple devices, central system, door locks, home alarm and garage door remote control switch" and so on.

It's not even a nest, but a hacker's hand. Nest is a well-known U.S. smart home equipment provider, early this year by Google to buy $3.2 billion, its products Nest thermostat has "the ipad in the thermostat," said the smart home is one of the most noticeable star. However, Nest thermostats were easily compromised at this year's Black Hat security conference. At that time, a group of hackers in front of hundreds of people, demonstrated how to break the nest thermostat, so that the Nest thermostat in an instant by the intelligent thermostat changed the hacker's "Home Monitor."

What does it mean that there are many security risks in smart homes? There are not many problems, but they are very serious. In short, there are two main aspects: one is the equipment "dies", and the other is the export of data information. Equipment "dead" refers to the intelligent hardware after being compromised, the direct loss of the original function, become a bunch of "scrap", what improve security, comfort and so are wishful thinking. In contrast, smart home has become a breach of the hacker collection of user family data information more serious. Equipment "dead", users only lose equipment, you can buy again, and once the device becomes a tool for hackers to steal data, users will lose the family privacy, or even involve some password, the final loss may be difficult to compensate.

In fact, smart home is not the only problem of security loopholes. In addition to the security implications of networking, hardware device defects can also cause security problems. It has to be said again that many people "worship" the nest, which happened in the nest of another product-smoke detectors. In May this year, Nest began recalling 440,000 smoke detectors, and the reason for the recall is that there is a certain security risk, the design of the smoke detector will cause the device to be closed without the user's knowledge, it is difficult to achieve a real alarm effect. It's just a smoke detector, and what if it's a smart door lock? The security problems that exist in this situation cannot be ignored.

If your smart home devices are easily "wasted", or can be used by others to sell themselves, or if they "fail", will you be willing to call them smart products? Can you use them very calmly? Obviously not, no security is fundamentally intelligent. However, we do not have the necessary unworthy. "All hardware products, from laptops to smartphones, can be cracked, and this is not a unique problem for nest," said Zoz Cuccias, a spokesman for Nest company in a statement. "It can be seen that if you are too worried about safety, devices such as smartphones cannot be a necessity for life.

There are security problems that can be solved by security problems. In addition to making hardware devices better to reduce design flaws, it is important to have network security. Because the security of the smart home equipment is usually connected to the Internet and to hackers to exploit, so in the case of Internet access to "antivirus" is very critical, and Nanjing IoT to allow equipment in the absence of local area network can also be normal operation without losing a better solution

Smart home Security Worrying (turn)