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Japanese government plans to hack insecure IoT devices with an aim to protect them from hackers

  The program which is a part of a survey will help the government figure out the number of insecure IoT devices in the country. The survey is scheduled to kick off next month and involves the security test of over 200 million IoT devices. The Japanese government has approved a new amendment that would allow government officials to hack into citizens’ IoT devices. The program which is a part of a survey will help the government to figure out the number of insecure IoT devices in the country. About the survey The survey is scheduled to kick off next month and involves the security test of over 200 million IoT devices. Devices in homes and on enterprise networks will be tested alike under the penetration test program. The  survey  will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. A list of default passwords and password dictionarie