The consumer advocacy group Which? has said some brands only support smart appliances for two to three years. This is a much shorter length of time than many customers expect to keep these products.
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A California security firm says they have discovered the origin of a botnet which delivered over 750,000 malicious emails to home appliances, such as refrigerators, routers and televisions.
Companies such as LG have shown off refrigerators, rice cookers and printers that run Google Android operating system at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
With today's operating systems ever increasing in size and complexity, a result of the wide variety of applications and usage situations they must support, maintenance of the codebase against bugs and security vulnerabilities becomes ever...