IoT: light bulb DoS attack on smart house

This guy's light bulb performed a DoS attack on his entire smart house -- Fusion
"In 2009, Raul Rojas, a computer science professor at the Free University of Berlin (and a robot soccer team coach), built one of Germany’s first “smart homes.” Everything in the house was connected to the Internet
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About two years ago, Rojas’s house froze up, and stopped responding to his commands. “Nothing worked.
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his light fixture had burned out, and was trying to tell the hub that it needed attention. To do so, it was sending continuous requests that had overloaded the network and caused it to freeze. “It was a classic denial of service attack,” says Rojas. The light was performing a DoS attack on the smart home to say, ‘Change me.'”