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Osram Smart Light Bugs Affect Wi-Fi Security

posted onJuly 27, 2016
by l33tdawg

A hack of your computer is bad enough, but how about your lights?

Security researchers at Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities in the Osram Sylvania Lightify products. One of the more concerning bugs would have allowed an attacker who stole a device with access to the app to see a home network's Wi-Fi pre-shared key in plain text. In addition, Rapid7 discovered that attackers could conduct man-in-the-middle attacks and expose a person's traffic to the hacker. Rapid7 even found issues that could allow hackers to change lighting and reconfigure a lighting setup.

On the Pro side, hackers could see a password in clear text without any trouble.

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