Hackers attacking homes through appliances
Devices in people’s homes and offices like routers and thermostats might be taken over by hackers in the coming weeks and used to suppress free speech and commit crime, experts say. Malicious software used in a major attack was publicly released. Ref. Source 5l.
Why can't hackers just leave us alone? I know the answer to that but since they're going that route to get to our info maybe we should stop being so reliant to networks and just use conventional items. Better safe than sorry.
Most of the time hackers wants our info to either steal money or sell it off to someone else who has a sick mind of using it. They have too much time in their hands all the time and there really isn't anybody to stop them.