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Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2017
Faulty firmware OTA update bricked hundreds of LockState smart locks

Some models of LockState smart locks also used by AirBnB customers were bricked by an OTA firmware update leaving guests unable to access their rentals. At the last Black Hat hacker conference, security experts demonstrated how to hack electronic locks, and the news I’m going to tell you demonstrates how annoying could be an incident to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2014
Billion devices could be controlled with built-in management tools by hackers

Security researchers have discovered that billions mobile devices could be remotely controlled due the presence of a built-in management tool. Two researchers at Accuvant Labs, Mathew Solnik and Marc Blanchou, have recently discovered the existence of built-in vulnerabilities in a large number of mobile devices that would allow an attacker to gain complete control of […]