Welcome to the haunted house of hacking horrors.

BBC recently ran a story highlighting the threats of IoT - specifically the connected homes appliances already available to the consumer. A great awareness piece that covers principles of default passwords, social media etiquette and "what if" scenarios - but is this enough?

Firstly - yes, the house really does exists!

It is however a commercial venture where instead of "hackers" there are "intrusion experts" that are hired by third party vendors and hardware manufacturers to for vulnerabilities before products hit the market. The video even shows the baby monitor I discussed earlier and shows that very easily you can have full control (via a program anyone can download).

The baby monitor isn't alone - it has been reported by a group of french researchers that more than 140,000 devices (story here) - ranging from routers, to CCTV systems already contain vunerabilities. To make matters worse - a number of vendors actually share the same firmware with little or no changes!

The numbers were shocking as it is - but these guys were not really even looking, they were just doing a simple but systematic analysis of firmware images scanning for currently known hacks and vunerabilities; they suggest there could be more but further analysis is required.

We are going to see experts go on about cloud computing, mobile security, database encryption and other high level concepts - but in the age of IoT and simple micro controllers hooked up to sensors; the true problem will eventually be at the source. Time will tell.