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Researchers say they have found a way to hack an internet-enabled carwash and make it "attack" users.
They warned criminals could easily exploit the Laserwash car washes, making their doors close too early or their roller arms crush the tops of cars.
They also claimed the manufacturer PDQ ignored warnings about the risks for two years.
PDQ said it was urgently investigating the issues.
Laserwash installations can be remotely monitored and controlled by their owners via a web-based user interface.
However, in a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Billy Rios of security firm Whitescope and Jonathan Butts from the International Federation for Information Processing showed how easily the system could be hijacked.
Firstly, they warned that Microsoft no longer supported the washers' Windows control systems, so hackers might be able to exploit hidden loopholes.
More worryingly, they managed to hack into an actual carwash by using the default password "12345".
An Anonymous Coward submitted a link to a related article from 2015:
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/hackin-at-the-car-wash-yeah/d/d-id/1319156
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday July 31 2017, @02:44PM
It also means no one else can use IoT in that location and will have to do something else or suffer no function. And that equipment taking part in mass surveillance will have a hard time functioning or be cost driven out of a workable economics model due to protection issues.
Oh and think of all the Facebook drone spies that will be disabled just like that, instantly ;)