http://www.csoonline.com/article/696293/the-security-threat-stephen-king-warned-us-about- By Taylor Armerding CSO December 12, 2011 Most people know that their computers and smart phones are under the constant threat of attack from hackers. But your car? Your house? Your TV and other consumer electronics? It seems like a take on Stephen King's short story "Trucks" -- where machines come to life and go on a murderous rampage (the movie version was "Maximum Overdrive"). In this case, hackers find security flaws in the computers running our vehicles, appliances and medical devices and wreak havoc. The real threat is far less dramatic, of course. But just a couple years ago, few people were seriously talking about this as a danger that might someday come to pass. As we look to 2012, however, the potential seems a lot less ridiculous, since our electronics increasingly tend to be part of a home network with an IP address -- one that can be controlled by a mobile device. Some experts in information security believe 2012 will be a year when hackers focus more on those things. Anup Ghosh, CEO of Invincea, says that, "in the search for more interesting devices to hack, the adversary is going to transition from traditional IT networks to embedded systems, which we normally think of as physical systems -- your car, TVs, your house, your office building. Systems that are networked and run a lot of software will be fertile ground for hackers." [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Tue Dec 13 2011 - 01:54:35 PST
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