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, 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 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 device connect to the IoT.