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| Source |  Network World |
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| Identifiant | 247116 |
| Date de publication | 2016-11-03 05:18:00 (vue: 2016-11-03 05:18:00) |
| Titre | How secure are home robots? |
| Texte | They have blinking lights and tend to chirp constantly. One of them can vacuum your living room carpet on a schedule. Another can play games with the kids using artificial intelligence.Yet, for homeowners (and security professionals) there's a question about whether home robots could become an attack vector for hackers. Tapping into a live webcam feed and recording it? Stealing Wi-Fi information from an unprotected signal so you can transmit illegal wares? What makes a home robot such an ingenious ploy is that few of us think a vacuum could possibly become anything remotely viable for criminal use. Yet, that's exactly the danger.“Homeowners never change the default passwords or use simple passwords which can be broken thus allowing hackers to leverage their way onto a home network and use the robot as a pivot point for further exfiltration of sensitive data or plant malware,†says Kevin Curran, a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Ulster and IEEE member.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here |
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