Security, however, is lost because developers are making users easy targets for hackers. Ted Harrington, organising the first ever "Internet of Things (IoT) Village" at the DEFCON hacker conference, says security breaches "will get worse…before it gets better". The IoT Village is a new type of "smart city" that will be built on top of existing infrastructure and run by an open source community to provide services such as data storage, internet access, energy Customers are being advised to be reluctant when trusting new products and should assume that a hacker will compromise any device connect to the IoT.
Ted Harrington, organising the first ever "Internet of Things (IoT) Village" at the DEFCON hacker conference, says security breaches "will get worse…before it gets better". The IoT Village is a new type of "smart city" that will be built on top of existing infrastructure and run by an open source community to provide services such as data storage, internet access, energy Customers are being advised to be reluctant when trusting new products and should assume that a hacker will compromise any device connect to the IoT.