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The security vulnerabilities of IoT devices is a serious cause of concern of administrators.<\/p>\n
Most IoT devices lack basic security protections, which provides the opportunity to hackers to use these mediums to launch attacks. Nowadays, many companies are into manufacturing of these IoT devices and you will find a huge number of these products floating the market. So it becomes difficult to choose the right provider.<\/p>\n
Cybercriminals target the IoT devices due to the huge availability of these devices in various forms. \u00a0Cybercrooks are able to spy on people and blackmail them if they are able to hack the IoT devices. Another issue with these IoT devices is that these products are not often updated by users due to which certain loopholes are created that can be utilized by cyber crooks. \u00a0In most cases, users of these IoT devices do not change the default username and password. A username of an Admin and password name 1234 can be easily guessed by a Cybercriminal.<\/p>\n
Hackers attempt to target government and corporate network databases taking advantage of these weak IOT devices.<\/p>\n
Owing to the increasing use of these smart devices, investment in securing these products will increase by many folds.\u00a0 However, as an end user, you need to adopt certain best practices to prevent yourself from becoming a victim.<\/p>\n
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Every day millions of devices are connected to the internet to make our task easy. These devices are known as IOT (internet of things). Some example of these devices includes Smart Home Devices, Security Camera, Intelligent Thermostat, Automatic Car Tracking Adapter, Mimo Monitor to name a few. We use these everyday devices without any worry but most of us are unaware that these devices can cause serious danger to our privacy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,203,93,317],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n