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Security experts offer tips for keeping your internet-connected things safe

WASHINGTON — Connecting anything and everything to the internet and controlling it through an app on your phone is all the rage right now -- but security on most of those devices can by abysmal.

Last Friday's massive cyber attack on a New Hampshire domain service company, which disrupted access to dozens of popular websites could have been carried out by common internet-connected devices in your home right now.

Security experts say there isn't an easy way to know.

"Proceed with caution is my advice," Pwnie Express CEO Paul Paget said.

The Department of Homeland Security says it's working to develop guidelines on how to bolster the security of household gadget. Security experts say manufacturers need to step up and make sure products can't be hacked.

"They're trying to sell you whatever the product happens to be and they don't necessarily see this as a critical responsibility on their part," Paget said.

Security experts say the threats to connected devices are growing and there isn't a coverall defense.

But experts do offer some tips for keeping your devices out of the cyber attack realm, you can find those here.