After Computer,Laptop and Smartphone botnet , Its time for smart devices such as TV’s,refrigerators to be infected

Remember those days of 1990’s wherein the first interesting news of infecting millions of computers creating botnets and thus used for various malicious purposes like Spamming , Mass-mailing , Open proxying and what not.

Now its time to move on (may be) , Hacking and thus infecting smart devices such as TV’s,refrigerators, is the latest news.

Typically these smart appliances are equipped with WI-fi and touch screen providing various options , able to communicate to their compatible devices. They also allow their owners to control them remotely via internet so as to schedule things , know the status of groceries etc!

Now security firm Proof point study reveals the infection of at least 100,000 smart devices such as TV’s,refrigerators , have been used to send spam throughout the world. Now these would be part of a botnet and can do variety of things.

This proves the point that anything can be infected with.. 😦

Want to know more ? , Check : http://missoulian.com/business/montana-inbusiness/internet-enabled-devices-at-home-vulnerable-to-hacking/article_2742123c-b8eb-11e3-8022-0019bb2963f4.html

5 year kid acknowledged as Microsoft ‘researcher’ after hacking Xbox account

Microsoft Security is not a child’s play but a child proved it incorrect , A kid named Kristoffer Von Hassel managed to access his father’s XBOX online account.

This little genius tried his father’s xbox account with incorrect passwords for a couple of times and has reached the password verification page , where he entered couple of spaces to “log-in” to the account!

This flaw made Microsoft acknowledge the 5 year old as a “Researcher” on its site along with couple of goodies including $50 , 4 Games and a free annual subscription to XBOX Live.

Refer : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/security/cc308589.aspx and http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26879185