Post by rubl on May 2, 2016 16:24:57 GMT 7
The IoT (aka Internet of Things) is real fun.
"Owners of Fitbit's Aria internet-connected smart scales are being advised to install a firmware patch following the discovery of critical security flaws.
Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero was credited with finding the vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi cyber-scales. While Fitbit isn't providing specific details on the nature of the flaws, it says that, in general, "critical" issues are those which "if exploited could allow attacker-supplied code to gain unrestricted access and potentially go undetected by the customer.""
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/fitbit_aria_scales_security_flaw/
Maybe I should have had topic title "how to get even with your mother-in-law
"Owners of Fitbit's Aria internet-connected smart scales are being advised to install a firmware patch following the discovery of critical security flaws.
Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero was credited with finding the vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi cyber-scales. While Fitbit isn't providing specific details on the nature of the flaws, it says that, in general, "critical" issues are those which "if exploited could allow attacker-supplied code to gain unrestricted access and potentially go undetected by the customer.""
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/fitbit_aria_scales_security_flaw/
Maybe I should have had topic title "how to get even with your mother-in-law
