His company revolves around cybersecurity and is organizing the first-ever “IoT Village” at DEFCON, the annual hacking conference that goes down August 4-7 in Las Vegas. Ted Harrington , in the first ever " Internet of Things ( IoT ) Village " at the DEFCON hacker conference , says security risks " will get worse … before it gets better " . The selling point of IoT is its connectivity , but it is putting privacy and security at risk as connected personal devices inherently trust each other , and so a hacker breaking in to one device will receive information from all paired to it , leaving an inevitability of potential identity theft . Customers are being advised to be reluctant when trusting new products and should assume that a hacker will compromise any new connect to the IoT.
Ted Harrington , in the first ever " Internet of Things ( IoT ) Village " at the DEFCON hacker conference , says security risks " will get worse … before it gets better " . The selling point of IoT is its connectivity , but it is putting privacy and security at risk as connected personal devices inherently trust each other , and so a hacker breaking in to one device will receive information from all paired to it , leaving an inevitability of potential identity theft . Customers are being advised to be reluctant when trusting new products and should assume that a hacker will compromise any new connect to the IoT.