As someone trying to get off the coffee train I find the recent reports of vulnerabilities in network connected coffee machines somewhat amusing. It seems some guy that has $2,900 to spend on a coffee maker(!!) also has the skillz to find a buffer overflow in it.
This type of thing is only going to increase as people slap more stuff onto the network with little to no care about security. These things generally all have web UIs which makes the vulns that much more interesting. It is somewhat easy to detect the spread of a mass SQLi attack on public facing web sites but what happens when we get this attack on internally facing systems? They are much harder to track and even detect. What if my coffee maker now does drive by malware attacks? What if my wireless router does? Our jobs are only geting harder people.
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