The number of Internet of Things devices in business now in the billions, the specter of crippling attacks on industrial control systems or critical national infrastructure becomes a possibility. Many organizations still fail to enforce basic measures that would otherwise protect themselves from attack. IT should be on top of updates for patches issued for any open source software used by the organization, particularly when it comes to their IoT deployments. Many devices get shipped from the manufacturer preconfigured with usernames and passwords that hackers can locate using search engines.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3200769/are-massive-cyberattacks-the-new-normal.html