Do you reuse your passwords?  Do you put private keys in code?  Do you leave servers open to the world?  Do you think you’re protected from a hacker?  It’s really, really easy for hackers to find unsecured devices.  Andrew McGill built a fake web toaster, and it was compromised in an hour!  He set up a false front to see how long it would take hackers to break in to his set up.  The hackers would think they were logging into a server, but he was really just recording their keystrokes and IP addresses.  The targeted products were old and not well protected.  The first hack attempt arrived just within minutes! Hackers aren’t typing these passwords themselves—they’ve programmed bots to do the hard work for them, scanning through thousands of open ports an hour!   Those scripts could be trawling Amazon’s range of IP addresses in hopes of hacking vulnerable rookies.  Most of the items that you connect to the web through your home wifi are usually okay because your router kills incoming hack attempts.  But what if your connection is compromised?  Read more here.