CODE BLUE 2014 : How I Hacked My Home by David Jacoby

In the IT-security industry, we are at the moment releasing articles about how hackers and researchers find vulnerabilities in for example cars, refrigerators, hotels or home alarm systems. All of these things go under the term IoT (Internet of Things), and is one of the most hyped topics in the industry. The only problem with this kind of research is that we cannot really relate to all of it. I decided to conduct a some research from which I thought was relevant, trying to identify how easy it would be to hack my own home. What can the attacker actually do if these devices are compromised? Is my home “hackable?”. Before I started my research I was pretty sure that my home was pretty secure, I mean, ive been working in the security industry for over 15 years, and I’m quite paranoid when it comes to applying security patches! It turned out I was wrong, and that i had a lot of devices connected to my network which was very vulnerable.Read less