A serious security issue relating fully automated car washes made the headlines this week: Researches found a way to manipulate internet-connected drive-through car washes that could physically attack vehicles and their passengers. The problem: configuration of the machines could be changed online. A decentralized system could have avoided that.
In a recent report, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) a US-based think tank warns about future threats we face as a result of increasing numbers of being connected online within the Internet of Things. The report “Rise of The Machines” states, that the recent DDoS attacks carried out by a Botnet of thousands of machines infected with the Mirai-Malware was just the beginning of what we’re going to see in the future. Additionally it calls for stricter regulations of IoT-Devic
