#SECURITY: "Five Steps to Securing Internet-Enabled Devices"

So far the most serious security breaches have been from PCs, but embedded system designers are working to prevent Internet-enabled consumer devices from being used as backdoors for future intrusions.



Wind River, makers of a popular Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) called VxWorks for Internet-enabled devices, claims that there will be 50 billion connected devices in use by 2020, any one of which could become the Internet's weakest link.
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