Mojoman Posted September 27, 2020 Share If you are interested in tech and hacking IOT devices...We all have mates who just plug and play with everything and never change any default/factory settings...As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineered one of the $250 devices to see what kinds of hacks he could do. After just a week of effort, the unqualified answer was: quite a lot. Specifically, he could trigger the coffee maker to turn on the burner, dispense water, spin the bean grinder, and display a ransom message, all while beeping repeatedly. Oh, and by the way, the only way to stop the chaos was to unplug the power cord.https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a-hacker-turned-a-250-coffee-maker-into-ransom-machine/?fbclid=IwAR0fLBJZVFfxhEyZ2Sh_cwOSc8SK5lZkB0vr1OtiklgS_mzNYEFCiZxCCM4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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