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Consumer IoT devices are showing up on corporate networks • The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/21/iot_devices_corporate_networks_security_warning/

Smart lightbulbs, heart rate monitors, gym equipment, coffee machines, and even smart pet feeders were all found on corporate networks during 2021, Palo Alto Networks said. Such devices are infamously poorly secured – but in the COVID-19 work-from-home era, such devices being adjacent to corporate networks presents a problem for blue teams.

Nobody could possibly have predicted this. Nobody. ...Right?

Oh, wait, that's in THAT OTHER IDEALIZED WORLD where there are no side-effects to cutting corners to the bone.

(And I still say "smart" lightbulbs were an amazingly stupid idea in the first place.)

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