Welcome to 2024!
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When I wasn’t spending my downtime chasing around my toddler, one of my main projects was to upgrade the internet connection at my house. My ISP started offering Gigabit speeds and a 60 GHz connection, which was appealing to me as someone who is always on a quest to find the best way to stream PS5 games to my Steam Deck.
This sent me down a path of reconfiguring my home network and re-adding a bunch of devices to a new network. And even though this sounds like a totally basic skill for anyone who works in cybersecurity, it was a big deal for me to set up a separate IoT-only network.
Many readers may have even gotten a new IoT device for a holiday gift. This mobile projector was featured on several “Top Gifts of 2023” lists I was looking at in December, and there are always the slam dunk gifts of a new home AI assistant like Google Home or the Amazon Echo Show to control all things “smart” in your home.
And we all know that, by being connected to the internet, many of these IoT devices are going to be vulnerable to adversaries. Last week, researchers found a network-connected torque wrench used in many industrial environments could be infected with ransomware.
There are many examples of WiFi-enabled h ..
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