Smart lightbulb and app vulnerability puts your Wi-Fi password at risk

New research highlights another potential danger from IoT devices, with a popular make of smart light bulbs placing your Wi-Fi network password at risk. Researchers from the University of London and Universita di Catania produced a paper explaining the dangers of common IoT products. In this case...

Low-power Bluetooth (BLE) connectivity vulnerability in LED smart bulbs at Foshan Electric Lighting Co.

LED smart light bulb is a new technology light source, which has the advantages of beauty, fashion, energy saving, environmental protection, safety and so on, and it can be controlled by intelligent devices. Foshan Electric Lighting Co., Ltd LED smart bulb there is a low-power Bluetooth BLE...

CVE-2017-18642

Syska Smart Bulb devices through 2017-08-06 receive RGB parameters over cleartext Bluetooth Low Energy BLE, leading to sniffing, reverse engineering, and replay attacks...

Smart LED Lightbulbs Can be Hacked too; Vulnerability exposes Wi-Fi Passwords

Until now, we have seen how different smart home appliances such as refrigerators, TVs and routers could expose our private data, but now you can add another worry to your list —LED light bulb. Don’t laugh! It’s true. Researchers at UK security firm Context have formulated an attack against the...