Knock and don’t run: the tale of the relentless hackerbots – Naked Security

Knock and don’t run: the tale of the relentless hackerbots

If you have an IoT device in your home, you could be receiving an average of 13 login attempts to these devices per minute, according to Matt Boddy’s latest research.

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