There’s a fake news report about three million internet-enabled toothbrushes contributing to a botnet. Unfortunately the mainstream media ran with the story before questioning its basic assumptions. This is a story about IoT devices and the fact that we still don’t understand how they are vulnerable. Tom Pace, co-founder and CEO of NetRise, talks about vulnerabilities inherent in the IoT space that are often misconstrued and how we need to ask more questions about the software and the hardware being used if we want to secure critical infrastructure tomorrow.
