Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

CHAPTER 25

Fighting IoT Malware

As mentioned in Chapter 22, the Internet of Things (or IoT, as used throughout this chapter) is expected to exceed 20 billion devices by 2020. Those devices will be part of our lives at home, on the job, in the hospital, and so on, while we are running, bathing, driving, watching TV, and even sleeping. Unfortunately, this explosion of devices also allows attackers to have more options to steal our information, and the most scary part is that it could allow them to cause physical damage to society—by hacking into a pacemaker and causing a heart attack, by controlling a car remotely and making it speed up until it crashes, by hijacking an airplane or ship, or by sending an overdose via an infusion pump, just to ...