Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets get hacked within 40 minutes of being connected to the net
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1ZYDK)
The Atlantic's Andrew McGill set up a virtual server on Amazon's cloud that presented to the internet as a crappy, insecure Internet of Things toaster; 41 minutes later, a hacked IoT device connected to it and tried to hack it. Within a day, the "toaster" had been hacked more than 300 times. (more")