"In the home, you have this whole other phenomenon which is the explosion of phones, tablets and the next big wave, which is Internet-connected TVs," says Adrian Turner, chief executive of Mocana. We spoke with executives at Mocana and Superior Solutions and found that security flaws on the following items allow as much access for hackers as a lockless door would for a passing burglar: "All of those markets have or will have connected devices." "If you look at every sector of the economy, it's consumer electronics, it's smart grid and smart energy infrastructure, it's health care and medical devices, it's industrial control, it's aerospace and defense, it's retail and it's transportation logistics," says Adrian Turner, chief executive of Mocana. The hacking of Sony's (Stock Quote: SNE) PlayStation Network back in April, the ensuing shutdown and the exposure of nearly 100 million users' information brought the hacking problem home without using PC, a tablet or even a smartphone to get in. With the researchers at Germany's University of Ulm discovering that Google Android devices not updated to the latest version of their operating system put calendar data, phone numbers, home addresses and email addresses at risk each time they connect to a network, personal smartphones and tablets are becoming prime targets for hackers.
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