Leaky IoT devices help hackers attack e-commerce sites

Millions of IoT devices are misconfigured so that they can forward messages -- which, combined with default admin settings, allows them to be used to attack e-commerce and other websites, a new report says.
The problem is well known and has been around for a more than a decade, said Ryan Barnett, principal security researcher at Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc., which produced the report.
The problem first came to Akamai's attention when the content delivery network noticed attac