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Description:CC0 Public Domain Off-the-shelf devices that include baby monitors, home security cameras, doorbells, and thermostats were easily co-opted by cyber researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev BGU. As part of their ongoing research into detecting vulnerabilities of devices and networks expanding in the smart home and Internet of Things IoT , the researchers disassembled and reverse engineered many common devices and quickly uncovered serious security issues. They discovered that similar products under different brands share the same common default passwords. Consumers and businesses rarely change device passwords when purchased so they could be operating infected with malicious code for years. They were also able to logon to entire Wi-Fi networks simply be retrieving the password stored in a device to gain network access.

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