In other news, your dishwasher may have a web server in it.
Maybe Kelly Conway wasn't so far wrong after all? (Nah, she probably still was).
Can't wait to see what some script kiddie decides to tell our kitchen appliances to do.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/26/miele_joins_internetofst_hall_of_shame/
Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emerency Response Team (CERT) warns
Netgear's R7000 and R6400 routers, running current and latest versions of firmware, are vulnerable to arbitrary command injection attacks, though the number of users affected by the flaw is still unclear.
http://thehackernews.com/2016/12/netgear-router-hacking.html
Lots of deep info here about whole classes of devices that are vulnerable to Mirai.
The fact that these things run telnet simply boggles the mind.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/12/researchers-find-fresh-fodder-for-iot-attack-cannons/
According to BadCyber.com, which first blogged about the emergence of the new Mirai variant, part of the problem is that Deutsche Telekom does not appear to have followed the best practice of blocking the rest of the world from remotely managing these devices as well.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/new-mirai-worm-knocks-900k-germans-offline/