With over 7 billion IoT devices, smart home technology has become a mainstay in homes around the world. Voice-activated, touch, and synced devices integrate and communicate via wireless and wired internet connections to assist in the running and organizing of our daily lives.
Collectively, they are part of the expansion of the ever-growing internet of things (IoT), which rely on the convergence of mobile and internet communication technology to help us be more productive, manage our health, control our home security and energy consumption, order dinner and a long list of other tasks.
The issue with much of the smart home technology, including smart home automation systems, and the internet of things more broadly, is that the more internet-connected and enabled devices we have around us, the greater the number of hacking and infiltration points. Below are the most commonly hacked smart home tech.
Smart cameras
Cameras around your home, if they are not closed-circuit, are connected to the internet via a wireless connection. These include cameras that monitor your front and back doors, the garage and driveway, and even baby monitors in nurseries or an infant’s room. Cameras are hacked for a wide range of reasons, some more nefarious than others.
Just last year, nearly 50,000 home camera systems (3TB of footage) were reportedly hacked and the footage was posted ..
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