The Key to a Secure Smart Home? A Secure Wi-Fi Network

Source: Craig Lloyd, HowToGeek.com, October 31, 2018 

We’ve talked a lot about the security of smarthome devices, but when it comes down to it, the most important step to secure your smarthome gear is to secure your Wi-Fi network, plain and simple.

Recently, hacker and security advocate Jerry Gamblin was able to easily reboot his Google Home Hub from his laptop using a simple curl command. I was able to replicate this myself using Terminal on macOS, and indeed I was able to reboot my downstairs Home Hub from my home office upstairs.

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