In this video, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley, researchers at Trustwave's SpiderLabs, discuss their recent work with home automation systems with SC Magazine's executive editor, Dan Kaplan, at this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. The major vulnerabilities found in the technology could allow attackers to take control things like door locks, thermostats, and garage doors in homes.
Video: Hacking home automation systems
Researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs sit with SC Magazine executive editor, Dan Kaplan, to discuss vulnerabilities found in home automation systems.
Organizations have been warned by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about ongoing attacks exploiting unencrypted F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager module-managed persistence cookies to discover other devices within the targeted network.
Affected by the flaw, which has remained unresolved since being detailed by SSD Disclosure in an advisory late last month, were Linear eMerge E3 versions 0.32-03i, 0.32-04m, 0.32-05p, 0.32-05z, 0.32-07p, 0.32-07e, 0.32-08e, 0.32-08f, 0.32-09c, 1.00.05, and 1.00.07, according to SSD Disclosure.