Hacked Sex Robots Could Murder People, Security Expert Warns. Sex robots could be hijacked by hackers and used to cause harm or even kill people, a cybersecurity expert has warned.
Artificial intelligence researchers have consistently warned of the security risks posed by internet-connected robots, with hundreds recently calling on governments to ban weaponized robots. The latest warning comes from a cybersecurity expert who made the prophecy to several U.K. newspapers. “Hackers can hack into a robot or a robotic device and have full control of the connections, arms, legs and other attached tools like in some cases knives or welding devices,” Nicholas Patterson, a cybersecurity lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, told the Star. “Often these robots can be upwards of 200 pounds and very strong. Once a robot is hacked, the hacker has full control and can issue instructions to the robot. Read more: Artificial intelligence could hijack brain-computer interfaces and take control of our minds.
Children's messages in CloudPets data breach. Jouets connectés : quels conseils pour les sécuriser ? Qu’est-ce qu’un jouet connecté ? Les jouets connectés prennent la forme d’objets d’apparence anodine (poupées, robots, montres connectées, babyphones, consoles, etc.) qui collectent des informations et les envoient par ondes radio (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) et sur Internet. Y-a-t-il un enjeu pour la vie privée ?
Comme pour tout objet connecté, l’utilisation mal contrôlée ou non sécurisée d’un jouet connecté peut confronter son utilisateur à diverses problématiques. Les communications et les données collectées par un jouet connecté peuvent potentiellement être : utilisées à des fins de ciblage publicitaire ;détournées par un individu malveillant, par exemple à des fins d’escroquerie, d’usurpation d’identité ou de harcèlement. Le «jardin secret» de l’enfant est-il remis en question ? Certains jouets offrent une plateforme sur laquelle les parents peuvent écouter, voire réécouter les conversations que les enfants ont avec leurs objets.
Comment sécuriser son jouet avant de le donner à l’enfant ? Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Record... A company that sells internet-connected teddy bears that allow kids and their far-away parents to exchange heartfelt messages left more than 800,000 customer credentials, as well as two million message recordings, totally exposed online for anyone to see and listen.
Since Christmas day of last year and at least until the first week of January, Spiral Toys left customer data of its CloudPets brand on a database that wasn't behind a firewall or password-protected. The MongoDB was easy to find using Shodan, a search engine makes it easy to find unprotected websites and servers, according to several security researchers who found and inspected the data. The exposed data included more than 800,000 emails and passwords, which are secured with the strong, and thus supposedly harder to crack, hashing function bcrypt. During the time the data was exposed, at least two security researchers, and likely malicious hackers, got their hands on it. Kids The Connected Home Privacy in the Age of Connected Dolls Talking Dinosaurs and Battling Robots.
Kids & The Connected Home: Privacy in the Age of Connected Dolls, Talking Dinosaurs, and Battling Robots - Future of Privacy Forum. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2016 Contact: Melanie Bates, Future of Privacy Forum, 202-596-9837, mbates@fpf.org Emma Morris, Family Online Safety Institute, 202-775-0158, emorris@fosi.org Kids & The Connected Home: Privacy in the Age of.
German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears. Image copyright Getty Images An official watchdog in Germany has told parents to destroy a talking doll called Cayla because its smart technology can reveal personal data.
The warning was issued by the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), which oversees telecommunications. Researchers say hackers can use an insecure bluetooth device embedded in the toy to listen and talk to the child playing with it. Manufacturer Genesis Toys has not yet commented on the German warning. The Vivid Toy group, which distributes My Friend Cayla, has previously said that examples of hacking were isolated and carried out by specialists. But experts have warned that the problem has not been fixed. The Cayla doll can respond to a user's question by accessing the internet. A vulnerability in Cayla's software was first revealed in January 2015. Complaints have been filed by US and EU consumer groups. German parents urged to destroy data-collecting toy doll. A German privacy watchdog is urging parents to destroy My Friend Cayla, a doll which has a knack for collecting private information about its owner.
Germany's Federal Network Agency, which is known as "Bundesnetzagentur," issued the warning after a student named Stefan Hessel raised the alarm about Cayla and her devious ways. Hessel, who studies at the University of Saarland, says Cayla's speaker and microphone system are vulnerable to external attacks. As he told the German website Netzpolitik.org (and rendered in English by Google Translate): "There are decisive reasons for the fact that the doll is a prohibited broadcasting system in the sense of § 90 Telecommunications Act. Each bluetooth capable device within a range of about ten meters can connect to it and use speakers and microphone. The notion that Cayla can function as an eavesdropper from several rooms away - or even allow others to talk to whoever's playing with it - is just the latest issue to plague this doll.