Invaders of the internet connected home

With this rising need of network connectivity to the average home, the role called the 'administrator-of-things ' exists in which there would be responsible individual/s worrying about some aspects of the home networked environment: uptime, updates, connectivity, troubleshooting, and security. In the not-so-distant-past, these aspects were just a worry of an enterprise systems/network administrator where the stakes were uptime and business continuity, and now these tasks have silently creeped in the household within the last few years. This paper would look into network-based threats that would attempt to break in and, in the process, explore the dangers that may befall the budding 'administrator-of-things. '