In the largest global study of the Internet of Things in consumers’ homes, researchers from Avast and Stanford University have shown a surprising emergence of IoT devices in consumer homes and shed light on troubling number of devices that continue to use guessable passwords. The study provides the first large-scale empirical analysis of IoT devices by leveraging user-initiated network scans of 83 million devices in 16 million households worldwide. The findings will be published in a paper, All Things Considered: An Analysis of IoT Devices on Home Networks, which will be appearing at USENIX Security this week. Avast researchers scanned the devices to understand the distribution of IoT devices by type and manufacturer and to understand the security profiles of various devices. The findings were validated and analyzed in collaboration with Stanford researchers. Learn more about the research here: https://blog.avast.com/avast-and-stanford-research-shows-global-internet-of-things-avast