There are 3.7 billion IP addresses on the Internet, and HD Moore has pinged every one of them. Moore is chief security officer at Rapid7, a cyberthreat and risk management company. In February, he decided as a hobby project to conduct a census of all the devices connected to the Internet, using a nest of computers in a spare room in his home. What he found from a security perspective was disturbing. He discovered millions of unsecured embedded devices on the Web — printers, set-top TV boxes and modems.
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Scan of Entire Internet Reveals Too Many Leaky Devices
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. May 6, 2013 06:00 AMThere are 3.7 billion IP addresses on the Internet, and HD Moore has pinged every one of them. Moore is chief security officer at Rapid7, a cyberthreat and risk management company. In February, he decided as a hobby project to conduct a census of all the devices connected to the Internet, using a nest of computers in a spare room in his home. What he found from a security perspective was disturbing. He discovered millions of unsecured embedded devices on the Web — printers, set-top TV boxes and modems.