From LED strips to your smart lightbulb, which has a circuit board inside with chips, you could be exposed.
"That effectively act just like your laptop, just like the computer technology that's in your phone that look to communicate wirelessly with your wireless network so that you can control it remotely via web browser or with your phone," Bridges said.
In what he describes as a brute force attack, Bridges ran a tool that can guess a username and password in a matter of seconds. From there, it snowballs. "We've also got access to names, email addresses. We can get into their cloud storage," Bridges said."We have a physical address, a phone number and an integration with Alexa."There are ways you can try to safeguard yourself:Keep your software up to date; it's easier, Bridges says, to hack outdated technology."That's the scariest part about this. There are no indicators, really, that you've been hacked.
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