Researchers Discover Security Flaws In Samsung’s Smart Home Platform
Given that email has been around for a very long time now, it is not surprising that over the years, its security has been improved upon to the point where emails are now relatively secure, assuming that on your end you don’t do anything that could compromise its security. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for smart home platforms, which for the most part is still new-ish tech.
In fact it seems that a team of researchers at the University of Michigan have managed to hack Samsung’s SmartThings smart home platform, thanks to the discovery of some rather disturbing security flaws. In the video above, the researchers demonstrate how they were able to pull off the hack which allows them to open electronic locks, change a home system’s “vacation” setting, and even set off the home’s fire alarm by sending it false messages.
