03 March, 2015

This guy's light bulb performed a DoS attack on his entire smart house -- Fusion

This guy's light bulb performed a DoS attack on his entire smart house -- Fusion: “I connected my laptop to the network and looked at the traffic and saw that one unit was sending packets continuously,” said Rojas. He realized that his light fixture had burned out, and was trying to tell the hub that it needed attention. To do so, it was sending continuous requests that had overloaded the network and caused it to freeze. “It was a classic denial of service attack,” says Rojas. The light was performing a DoS attack on the smart home to say, ‘Change me.'”