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General Category => Smart Devices and Gadgets => Topic started by: renegade600 on May 03, 2016, 05:45:30 pm
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found the following. makes you wonder how secure most smart home devices are....
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/samsung-smart-home-flaws-lets-hackers-make-keys-to-front-door/
Computer scientists have discovered vulnerabilities in Samsung's Smart Home automation system that allowed them to carry out a host of remote attacks, including digitally picking connected door locks from anywhere in the world.
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There are multiple big ol' threads on this at the ST Community site (for instance: https://community.smartthings.com/t/researchers-say-there-are-serious-security-problems-in-samsung-s-smartthings/46834 (https://community.smartthings.com/t/researchers-say-there-are-serious-security-problems-in-samsung-s-smartthings/46834)). The short version is that it's a concern, but not quite as much as some of the publications are making it out to be. The bigger worry is the ST service itself going haywire and unlocking your doors when its not supposed to, as actually happened to some folks during the system convulsion that occurred last month.