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Worm may create an Internet of Harmful Things, says Symantec

posted onDecember 4, 2013
by l33tdawg

Security researchers are gradually raising warnings that the Internet of Things will increase, by multitudes, the number of things that can be hacked and attacked.

The Hitchcockian plotlines are endless. Replace The Birds with flying Amazon delivery drones. Or imagine, as researchers did recently at Black Hat, someone hacking your connected toilet, making it flush incessantly and closing the lid repeatedly and unexpectedly.

With those visions in mind, pay heed to what security vendor Symantec says it has discovered: A new Linux worm that "appears to be engineered to target the Internet of Things."

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