Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:17:16 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Are your appliances sending spam?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 03/19/15 14:28, Michael Walsh walshmichaelj at gmail.com [wsfa-forum] wrote:
> "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
>
Yep. The Internet of Things is *such* a good idea....

mark