At Christmas, don't give the keys to your house to hackers.

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:46:56 +0000

The Christmas period is a good time for hacks in companies, with the end-of-year holidays, there is indeed less staff, and therefore less reactivity. But it would be simplistic to see only this aspect.

Hell has a gift-wrapping

In recent years, connected objects of all kinds have become fashionable: speakers, watches, scales, vacuum cleaners, and this year’s fashionable object, connected cameras. All these gadgets can be very useful and have very nice features, but they are also the perfect access to your home for a pirate. Unfortunately, these devices are very often “light” in terms of embedded security. One might think that this is not too annoying, but from a compromised device, it may eventually be possible to infect an entire network to extract data for example.

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At Christmas, don't give the keys to your house to hackers.

Hell has a gift-wrapping