For researchers at testing outfit AV-Test, the SMA M2 kids’ smartwatch is just the tip of an iceberg of terrible security.
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Parents say creep hacked their baby monitor to tell toddler they ‘love’ her
The Taococo FREDI baby monitor has repeatedly been criticized for being easy to hack.
Police interrogate Alexa for clues in fatal spear-stabbing
A friend heard a couple arguing but couldn’t make out what it was about. Police hope that Alexa might have a better idea.
Google chief warns visitors about smart speakers in his home
Rick Osterloh says he discloses smart speaker use when someone enters his home, and the products should probably do so themselves.
Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait
Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage.
Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty
He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.
Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS
Production systems aren’t supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.
Google’s Nest webcam needs patching after flaws found
The list of vulnerabilities recently discovered by researchers relate to one model, the Nest Cam IQ Indoor camera.
Researchers hack camera in fake video attack
Tampering with surveillance cameras is a common activity for Hollywood heroes and criminals alike. Now, researchers have shown how they can do it in real life.
‘Urgent/11’ flaws affect 200 million devices – from routers to elevators
There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: “the most widely used operating system you may never have heard about”.