Iot devices are easy to hack and here is why...

Today we are living in internet age and many things are already connected and many are waiting to be...

Market is flooded with cheap iot devices like smart speaker smart watches etc. Yes they are very portable and useful but as we know "great power comes with great responsibility"

And it's the manufacturer whose responsibility is to make sure that their product is secure enough but here is the things get worse...

Companies are competing with each-other to launch so many smart devices at affordable prices And make them susceptible to bugs, because now their engineering department work on multiple projects, and it leads to human error, in the worst scenario their product may have vulnerabilities.

Hackers love vulnerabilities, and on the top of that those devices often doesn't come with a fast processor so forget about Encryption...

Those iot device's os coded in C/C++ or ASM language which are extremely efficient but they let the code security responsibility to devloper.

And because of cheap low spec hardware they often don't have exploit mitigations like ASLR, DEP, CANARY because these mitigations requires fast processor and meaningless in such short address space, so hackers don't need to bypass any filters.

So make code bug-free is our last hope but those overworked engineers often do mistakes and intentionally or unintentionally end product are easier to hack than regular pc or smartphone.

Here i can say only purchase a well reputed company's smart devices because they test their device very extensively so there will be less chance to be prone to hack.