Hackers May Target Your Home Electrical Appliances to Steal Your Most Sensitive Information

Modern electrical appliances are able to connect an internet and thus they will have an IP address. It is rather convenient as we can control them remotely and it is connected to one another. However, it is also posed a threat.

One possibility of the threat is that it is going to be easier for the hackers to steal your personal information such as your identity, bank and credit card information as there is more variety of equipment that the hackers can access to. For example, before, the hackers can only hack into your computer, but, now, the hackers are able to hack to your television, refrigerators or other home appliances.

An example of such case is the high profile cyberattack which happened in late 2013 and early 2014. Hackers broke into 100,000 consumer gadgets, such as refrigerator, televisions, wireless speakers and media centers to release 750,000 malicious emails.

Chris Robets, Colorado-based One World Labs, a security intelligence firm, estimated that there would be about 26 to 30 billion devices connected to internet by 2020. In order to keep them protected from hackers, it will require software upgrades and better consumer education as most internet security expert agrees that most consumers will not understand where their data is stored and who has access to it.

A guideline also has to be set and put in place to ensure privacy and security of the consumers.

Hackers May Target Your Home Electrical Appliances to Steal Your Most Sensitive Information

SmartThings is now with Samsung: Home Automation Begins!

Smartphones are bound to do many a great thing for us. Have you even once wondered how? To create a world starting from our homes, where we can have control over our properties with just one click, Samsung is taking a big step towards home automation by owning SmartThings. SmartThings, though, we can say, still new is growing and entering homes at a fast pace. It has been known since 2012 to develop a hardware hub, which allows syncing infinite number of gadgets into one place? Do you see now how big this venture is for the two companies and for us? If this undertaking became successful, which most likely will be, we can have the power over our appliances through our smartphones. Thus, providing us a more convenient and secured life.

It was made clear, however, that although Samsung has already acquired SmartThings at a said price of $200 million, it will remain an independent company. “SmartThings will remain SmartThings.”-Alex Hawkinson, CEO, SmartThings” It would only relocate from Washington D.C to Samsung’s Open Innovation Center founded in Palo Alto, CA, but it would remain its connections and transactions with its developer community and business partners.

Although some suspect it, Samsung is not confirming that this scheme is a way to keep pace with its major rival, Apple. The latter is expected to launch HomeKit this year. On related news, Google is also up for the home automation competition as it also has plans of acquiring Nest for several billion dollars.

Are you ready to turn your house into a smart home?

SmartThings is now with Samsung: Home Automation Begins!