Paul Marrapese, who disclosed flaws impacting 2 million IoT devices in April, is sounding off that consumers throw the devices away. The flaws could enable an attacker to hijack the devices and spy on their owners or further pivot into the network and carry out more malicious actions. I don t think that there s going to be any patch for this. The issues are very, very hard to fix, in part because, once a device is shipped with a serial number, you can’t really change that .I wish I was more optimistic about it truly, he said.
Source: https://threatpost.com/consumers-urged-to-junk-insecure-iot-devices/145800/