8 Things You Didn't Know Could Be Hacked


(#) Traffic lights

Traffic lights are provided to ease the traffic, but the hackers are always upto some mischievous or roguish tactics to create troubles and mess with traffic lights to jam roads and reroute cars. It is exactly what the hackers did in the movie Italian Job.

What all required is just few strokes on the keyboard by these hackers and they can switch the red, green and orange according to their wish and take control of the whole traffic system in few taps.

(#) Printers

A hacker sitting miles away from your printer can use it as a copy machine for your vital information. The researchers have found out that printers can be remotely controlled by cyber hackers over Internet.

This security flaw could impact millions of businesses, consumers, and even government agencies.

The flaw involves firmware that run computer printers, installed with functions that allows them to operate more like full-fledged computers connected to Internet. 

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