SMART home technology are connected by the Internet of Things, have inherent risks of security breaches. Hackers targeted unsecured devices that includes SMART home technology, and infected them with malicious code to form a botnet and carry out the attack. A study estimates that at least 15 percent of home routers are unsecured with weak or default passwords. There are over 13 billion interconnected digital and electronic devices across the world; the October 2016 DDoS attack showed that a small percentage of vulnerable devices can have a devastating impact. SMART home technology SMART home technology use devices connected to the Internet of things
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