The PewDiePie Hackers: 100,000 printers and a bunch of ChromeCasts

[alastairstevenson]

This is another example of the risks of 'port forwarding' - just too easy.
Could one hack ruin your life?

 

[SkyLake]

Back in the fresh days of war driving, we looked for shared printers on the networks, and printed out a text with information on how they could secure their network, to prevent things like that happening

I'm still amazed on how they just lack to secure a network nowadays. Just a scan shows many open ports through upnp or even manually port forwarded.

We gave up on trying to stop the wave of new devices popping up for every network that got secured.

 

[alastairstevenson]

Just a scan shows many open ports through upnp or even manually port forwarded.

Yes indeed.
And to make it even easier are the search engines for devices. Just choose your criteria and it's handed to you on a plate.

 

[SkyLake]

Absolutely right, those type of search engines, or the most famous dangerous one in particular just made it much easier.

I remember the days, that you could find open devices and files by adding some search filters into Google