{"id":88343,"date":"2026-11-12T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88343"},"modified":"2026-11-12T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:46:28","slug":"cybersecurity-chiefs-warn-hackers-could-hit-our-home-appliances-heres-how-they-would-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cybersecurity-chiefs-warn-hackers-could-hit-our-home-appliances-heres-how-they-would-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Chiefs Warn Hackers Could Hit Our Home Appliances \u2013 Here\u2019s How They Would Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Independent:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sc-1aeoivu-0 bqsDIO\">T<\/span><a title=\"Fridge hacks exposed a chilling weakness. Now experts fear far worse is still to come\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/tech\/fridge-hacks-ai-cyber-security-b3079934.html\">oday it was fridges<\/a>; tomorrow it could be routers; the day after tomorrow it could be home appliances, and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are the words of Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the EU\u2019s cybersecurity agency ENISA, on Tuesday.\u00a0As supermarkets and <a title=\"Blood banks in France hit by cyber attack as bomb hoaxes leave flights grounded across Europe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/europe\/blood-banks-hacked-france-cyberattack-b3079117.html\">blood banks have struggled to deal with fridges<\/a> overheating, streets are brought to a standstill by malfunctioning traffic lights, and power outages hit civilian populations, the cybersecurity chief\u2019s words have made it clear that <a title=\"UK military sends specialist \u2018hunt\u2019 missions overseas to thwart hostile hackers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/uk\/crime\/british-defence-hostile-hackers-b3081365.html\">these issues are not over<\/a> \u2013 and <a title=\"Sorry Wes, you can\u2019t stockpile your way out of Armageddon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/voices\/apocalypse-emergency-preparedness-stockpiling-survival-panic-buying-ai-b3072092.html\">could, in fact, become very personal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Independent: Today it was fridges; tomorrow it could be routers; the day after tomorrow it could be home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88344,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88343\/revisions\/88344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}