Penetration Testing on the IoT Front Lines
Penetration Testing on the IoT Front Lines
3 PagesHackers in the Heating Ducts Every respectable action movie hero in recent decades has snuck into at least one building through a ventilation shaft. Today’s hackers know it’s still a go-to move. In fact, one of cybersecurity’s historic wake-up calls was the 2014 theft of more than 110 million credit card records from retail titan Target. Nearly every consumer heard about that one. But many people don’t know that the hackers’ path into the system ran through the contractor handling Target’s HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) system. After using a phishing scheme to dupe one of the contractor’s employees, hackers got a login credential for Target’s network and went hunting for valuable records. Penetration Testing on the IoT Front Lines Company: Baker Group Industr
