Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:28:54 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Are your appliances sending spam?
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading security-as-a-service
provider, has uncovered what may be the first proven Internet of
Things (IoT)-based cyberattack involving conventional household
"smart" appliances. The global attack campaign involved more than
750,000 malicious email communications coming from more than 100,000
everyday consumer gadgets such as home-networking routers, connected
multi-media centers, televisions and at least one refrigerator that
had been compromised and used as a platform to launch attacks. As the
number of such connected devices is expected to grow to more than four
times the number of connected computers in the next few years
according to media reports, proof of an IoT-based attack has
significant security implications for device owners and Enterprise
targets."

http://investors.proofpoint.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=819799

mjw