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.
Link: A Legion of Bugs Puts Hundreds of Millions of IoT Devices at Risk
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