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Title    Meeting Owl Videoconference Device Used by Govs is a Security Disaster
Date    Monday June 06 2022, @08:42AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the of-course-it-is-it-is-the-government,-after-all dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/06/05/1343259

upstart writes:

Meeting Owl videoconference device used by govs is a security disaster:

The Meeting Owl Pro is a videoconference device with an array of cameras and microphones that captures 360-degree video and audio and automatically focuses on whoever is speaking to make meetings more dynamic and inclusive. The consoles, which are slightly taller than an Amazon Alexa and bear the likeness of a tree owl, are widely used by state and local governments, colleges, and law firms.

A recently published security analysis has concluded the devices pose an unacceptable risk to the networks they connect to and the personal information of those who register and administer them. The litany of weaknesses includes:

[...] Researchers from modzero, a Switzerland- and Germany-based security consultancy that performs penetration testing, reverse engineering, source-code analysis, and risk assessment for its clients, discovered the threats while conducting an analysis of videoconferencing solutions on behalf of an unnamed customer. The firm first contacted Meeting Owl-maker Owl Labs of Somerville, Massachusetts, in mid-January to privately report their findings. As of the time this post went live on Ars, none of the most glaring vulnerabilities had been fixed, leaving thousands of customer networks at risk.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "Meeting Owl videoconference device used by govs is a security disaster" - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/06/vulnerabilities-in-meeting-owl-videoconference-device-imperil-100k-users/
  3. "interprocess communication channel" - https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/inter-process-communication-ipc/
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=55471

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