Vegas Casino breached through an IoT (Internet of Things) thermostat?
Yes, I said a hacker accessed a Vegas Casino database thru a thermostat!
How is that possible?
This thermostat is one of those IoT (Internet of Things) devices such as Nest. They had it hooked up to the same network as the production environment. The attackers were able to access a list of their high rollers, names, addresses, all their information. And had that list send back thru the thermostat.
That is crazy but it leads me to talk about security. Segmentation. Segment our doorbells, our thermostats and other IoT separate from our production or database environments.
A lot of companies do this already but for the home, there aren’t any amazing solves yet. If you can think of anything please let me know by dropping a comment below.
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