With the growing market of the devices on the internet in the upcoming next few years the reported search of IoT will hit billions. Right from the smart phones to smart wearable, smart home devices etc. Each and everything is getting automated making things and life easy for the users. It has been recently found that that the smart devices of today are much easier to hack.
All of them are nearly compromising on the security as well. Nearly most of them have less than below standard of security The security for most of the smart devices today can be easily breached. Most of them are easily hackable for anyone who is looking to get into it. Most of the devices have open ports and default passwords configured making them easy to be guessed. Except few, none of the devices available in the market is encrypted. This is also another relative issue with the devices today which makes it very easier for the hacker to sniff in the device and get the hang of it. There are n numbers of gadgets which may be covered in the lists. In fact the security cameras in your home which acts as the third eye for most of us can be potentially hacked too.
It is very easy to plug into the device and change the configuration for sneaking into your private space. Who is to be blamed for all this? The manufacturers of the devices are more focused towards selling the devices. None of them is even concerned with addressing the security issues of the user. All of them want to make quick money with deeper market penetration. IoT devices have become very much seasonal today. All of them are used and scrapped for a very short term today therefore companies do not research much on the security upgrade of the device.