Unencrypted traffic lets anyone on the same network, or along the path to the cloud, capture credentials, personal data, and control commands, and replay or alter them.
Encrypt all traffic with TLS, validate certificates, and use encrypted protocols for local network communication as well as internet traffic.
The same feature written the risky way, then with the fix applied.
How this risk has ranked in each OWASP release.
2014Latest
#04iot04-2014 Lack of Transport Encryption