{"id":2625,"date":"2025-05-20T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/smart-toasters-may-be-used-to-spy-on-people\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:11:07","slug":"smart-toasters-may-be-used-to-spy-on-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/smart-toasters-may-be-used-to-spy-on-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart toasters may be used to spy on people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-20 11:11:06<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Smart toasters could be used to spy on people.<BR><br \/>\nAs tech firms ditch security updates for old devices that are connected to the web via Wi-Fi, it gives people the perfect opportunity to hack into the products.<BR><br \/>\nIt comes as cyber attackers launched a &#8220;zombie army&#8221; of internet-connected devices in 2016, which resulted in them shutting down large parts of the web.<BR><br \/>\nAlan Woodward, a cybersecurity professor at the University of Surrey, added that non-protected devices act as a &#8220;stepping stone&#8221; for hackers.<BR><br \/>\nHe is quoted by The Times as saying: \u201cIn some ways, it might not matter that your toaster doesn\u2019t get updated.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cBut actually if it\u2019s on your network and somebody discovers a vulnerability, that vulnerability is never going to be fixed.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;If it remains connected and it\u2019s just kind of ignored, then it can be a stepping stone.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nAndrew Laughlin, from consumer choice brand Which?, told the publication: &#8220;This is a pattern that we see time and again as companies drop support for their smart products, sometimes after as little as two years.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-20 11:11:06 Smart toasters could be used to spy on people. As tech firms ditch security updates for old devices that are connected to the web via Wi-Fi, it gives&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}