The Internet of Things (IoT)
The IoT is the expansion of networked people and devices to include a growing number of physical objects that will talk to each other using M2M communications. IoT can enable people to remotely monitor and manage connected devices using smartphones and other mobile devices.
Use Cases
Your refrigerator sends your smartphone a grocery list.
A doctor can monitor your health remotely.
A bottle of prescription medicine messages you when your pills run low.
Appliances such as road or building lights, microwave ovens, room heating and air-conditioning can become smart connected devices.
Devices can understand voice commands and are enabled to talk.
Home and industrial building security.
Environmental monitoring.
Automotive traffic management.
Your car sends you a message when it needs maintenance.
Your car's GPS device senses you are within a specified radius of your house and switches on lights and temperature control and prepares your dinner with appropriate background music.
Warehouse and in-transit resource and asset tracking.
IoT Security Flaws
Securing 1) control, 2) data, and 3) communications are significant problems because the IoT use low-cost machine nodes. Unlikely that IoT devices will encrypt their data and use SSL for communications.
Whatis: IoT security
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/IoT-security-Internet-of-Things-security
100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed and They Won’t Be the Last, Wired, April 14, 2021
https://www.wired.com/story/namewreck-iot-vulnerabilities-tcpip-millions-devices/
"Over the last few years, few years, researchers have found a shocking number of vulnerabilities in seemingly basic code that underpins how devices communicate with the internet. Now a new set of nine such vulnerabilities are exposing an estimated 100 million devices worldwide, including an array of internet-of-things products and IT management servers."
"The researchers coordinated disclosure of the flaws with developers releasing patches, the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and other vulnerability-tracking groups. Similar flaws found by Forescout and JSOF in other proprietary and open source TCP/IP stacks have already been found to expose hundreds of millions or even possibly billions of devices worldwide."