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Daily Dashboard | Vulnerabilities discovered within “smart home” platform Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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Researchers from the University of Michigan and Microsoft found major security flaws within Samsung’s SmartThings platform, Wired reports. The group of researchers created four different attacks through the platform, the most dangerous of which exploits an authentication flaw in the SmartThings Web server. The results of their findings will be presented later this month at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. “If these apps are controlling non-essential things like window shades, I’d be fine with that. But users need to consider whether they’re giving up control of safety-critical devices,” says Earlence Fernandes, one of the University of Michigan researchers. “The worst case scenario is that an attacker can enter your home at any time he wants, completely nullifying the idea of a lock.”
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