By hacking one of their own homes, researchers want to open a window on IoT security
A year ago, cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro who were tinkering with home-automation systems in their spare time decided to make a formal project out of it. One of the researchers invited the others to hack his smart home in Germany and see what they could find out about the underlying protocols used in it. They quickly discovered that not only was the system susceptible to manipulation, but it was also ill-equipped to detect it. The owner of the home found himself moving from room to room, trying to figure out why his lights and window blinds weren’t working. Stephen Hilt, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, had inadvertently carried out a denial-of-service attack on devices running on a popular building-automation protocol in the house. The researchers knew where the attack was coming from — Hilt was using a software-defined radio to jam the devices, flooding them with noise — but they didn’t realize how effective it would be. “That was […]
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