A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio]

Re:A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio] by throwacide on Sunday January 14, 2018 @02:59PM (#16146017)

Surface area is bigger than ever so there’s all sorts of low hanging fruit still out there. One hacker told me it’s exponentially worse than ever.

Eventually we will have global standards but humans are still largely stuck in their totem pole phase.

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Re:A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio] by rando444 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:19PM (#16146137)

Is it? I mean I feel like the amount of people putting things straight out to the internet should be more minimal than ever with people just using more private networks these days.

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Re:A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio] by ZenoArrow on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:16PM (#16147452)

The "Internet of Things" trend has brought forward a wide range of new network-enabled devices, that frequently have low security standards.

To give an example...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507126/iot-drone-hack

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Re:A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio] by tjoff on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:36PM (#16146229)

UPnP is cancer.

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