Security experts at ToorCon Conference in San Diego were pessimistic about the ability of the industry to avoid the painful mistakes made in earlier generations. Without proper protections, even seemingly innocuous devices can potentially be leveraged for users well afield of that for which they were designed, experts said. The theme of the conference was that the rapid evolution of new and new platforms, and the glacial pace of change and infrastructure to support them, is that the old protocols and infrastructure will not support them now.
Source: https://threatpost.com/toorcon-new-apps-old-infrastructure-make-toxic-brew-102510/74605/