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Micro Survey of Smart Home Devices Finds Much To Fault

ID: 255cfee0-2ca6-51f5-ace9-e74b426cfd4d

STIX ID: report--255cfee0-2ca6-51f5-ace9-e74b426cfd4d

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
35/100

Date Published: 2014-07-30

Date Updated: 2026-05-08

Author: Paul Roberts

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A summary of an HP Fortify study (reported by ZDNet) found that 70% of a sampled set of 10 popular IoT devices contained exploitable software vulnerabilities—about 25 vulnerabilities per device on average. Common issues included weak or absent password requirements, lack of encryption for communications and updates, and insecure web interfaces; the report also cautions the small sample size limits generalizability.

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