when will people learn that even though you want more things networked you shouldnt be exposing them to the internet. Remote server connections, port forwarding and many other things just leave things exposed as it allows for communication. I've been talking about this flaw with smart home devices that before now there was no brand that wouldnt work without constant internet connection to some server.
Next time you want to "smart up" your home have a good firewall such as a configurable one or even a UTM, dont port forward, dont use smart devices that require or create a connection to an external server and use vpn whenever you want to access your stuff and make sure to secure your vpn. VPN needs to be hosted on your router and not some service or this.
This is quite bad for cars because some cars have constant internet connection to some server that makes them vulnerable and a non variable locking mechanism that allows thieves to just listen for your car signal and just repeat it. If your car is as important as your money in the bank it should receive the same amount of security a bank has. Cars dont even have the basic 2 way authentication that banks and SSL use.
Internet of things isnt a bad thing, its just the greed of having things always connected to some external service always leaves you vulnerable and violated. At the very least get a configurable router and use my example firewall of an automated blacklist which is meant to detect hack attempts and also block them on the forward chain. You should also secure your LAN with layer 2 authentication as well such as RADIUS and defining your network so only the addresses you set can communicate. With the current state of consumer routers IoT is hopeless with routers hanging or crashing.
Ofcourse samsung doesnt learn, they want to get as much info on you as they can just for their market research. Same can be said for many other big companies.
Yet no matter how good i am with programming, networking and security no one would bother to hire me.
