A New Way To Track Down Bugs Could Help Save IOT

On a clear day this summer, security researcher Ang Cui boarded a boat headed to a government biosafety facility off the northeastern tip of Long Island. … “Right now we haven’t seen much of it because there are so many IoT systems already out there with even more trivially exploitable problems like default passwords,” says Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, a software analysis and embedded device researcher at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering]. “So until those become more scarce, I wouldn’t expect attackers to expend effort.”