A Legion of Bugs Puts Hundreds of Millions of IoT Devices at Risk

Security experts have warned for years that the drive to connect every device imaginable to the internet would offer a bonanza for hackers. Now researchers have found that one chunk of software designed to enable those internet connections is itself riddled with hackable vulnerabilities. As a result, security flaws have ended up in hundreds of millions of gadgets across the globe, from medical devices to printers to power grid and railway equipment.

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