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Black Hat Europe: IoT Devices Can Hack Phones

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday November 03 2016, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the turn-off-your-toasters dept.

"exec" writes:

The Internet of things (IoT) has already been used to launch the biggest DDoS attacks ever, but now it represents a potential path for attackers to compromise cell phones.

Flaws in Belkin WeMo devices - electrical switches, cameras, light bulbs, coffee makers, air purifiers, etc. – enabled Invincea Labs researchers to not only hack into the devices, but to use that access to attack an Android phone running the app that controls the WeMo devices.

"This is the first instance we've seen of IoT hacking something else," says researcher Scott Tenaglia, who pledges to look for other vulnerable devices that might be abused to carry out similar attacks.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3138050/internet-of-things/black-hat-europe-iot-devices-can-hack-phones.html

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  • (Score: 2) by Sarasani on Thursday November 03 2016, @12:18PM

    by Sarasani (3283) on Thursday November 03 2016, @12:18PM (#422003)

    Why are stories such as these so completely, utterly, unreservedly, absolutely predictable? Predictable even before the term IoT came into existence? Sigh....

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @12:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @12:23PM (#422004)

    The best way to predict the future is to make it.

    Would you like a smartwatch, sir?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Thursday November 03 2016, @06:23PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday November 03 2016, @06:23PM (#422177) Journal

    Because the iot devices can't actually fight back.

    Never mind that 99.999 percent of all such "Belkin WeMo devices - electrical switches, cameras, light bulbs, coffee makers, air purifiers" are behind firewall routers and thus could not be compromised other than in some researcher's lab.

    Lets blame things that could not possibly be the source of these attacks because there is no one there to fight back.

    Lets not talk about comcast and at@&t and versizon cox and centurylink home routers are the cheapest and weakest and deployed with factory passwords, and have direct access to large amounts of bandwidth. Shhhh. That would attract lawyers.

    No lets blame the light bulb.

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