Hi and welcome to Cyber reasons malicious life. I'm Ran Levy. ran levying. You've probably noticed that smart homes are slowly but surely becoming a part of our everyday lives.

Many of us already own a smart TV that can stream YouTube or Netflix.

Smart speakers such as Amazon's Echo or Google Home, or security cameras that

we can access remotely from our phones.

Some early adapters even have remotely controlled alarm systems, water heaters and refrigerators,

and it's a trend that's likely to keep growing year by year.

All these smart devices are connected to the internet and so it's

little wonder that they are at risk of getting hacked. Still it can be

enlightening to get a glimpse of the numbers that serve to quantify that risk.

In July 2021, researchers working for the British Consumer magazine, which built their own smart

home made up of a variety of real consumer devices, gadgets that anyone can buy, smart audio systems, a smart thermostat, a smart kettle, and so on.

They connected everything to the internet and immediately experienced a relentless sequence of attacks aimed at the

entire system and at specific gadgets in it. More than 2,000 malicious login

attempts using the default

user names and passwords that devices leave the factory with

in just a single week.

That's roughly 14 attacks per hour.

Most of the attacks were intercepted.

The magazine's employees were helped by security experts from NCC Group and the Global Cyber Alliance, so they definitely had a certain advantage

over the hackers. Still, some of the hacks were successful. For instance, a wireless camera purchased on Amazon was hacked

and someone used it to spy on the house.

So here's a house.

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