IoT Cameras Exposed by Chainable Exploits, Millions Affected

By Deeba Ahmed
A recent discovery of 4 security flaws in ThroughTek’s Kalay platform leaves millions of IoT devices exposed. This article explores the security risks to your connected home and the broader threat to IoT devices. Act now – secure your sm… Continue reading IoT Cameras Exposed by Chainable Exploits, Millions Affected

Millions of IoT devices, baby monitors open to audio, video snooping

By Deeba Ahmed
The vulnerability would allow threat actors to compromise a targeted ThroughTek IoT device and watch the real-time video feed, listen to audio, and compromise credentials.
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Critical bug allows remote compromise, control of millions of IoT devices (CVE-2021-28372)

A vulnerability (CVE-2021-28372) in the SDK that allows IoT devices to use ThroughTek’s Kalay P2P cloud platform could be exploited to remotely compromise and control them, Mandiant researchers have discovered. Further attacks are possible depend… Continue reading Critical bug allows remote compromise, control of millions of IoT devices (CVE-2021-28372)

ThroughTek Flaw Exposed Millions of IoT Cameras to Spying

By Deeba Ahmed
According to researchers, the vulnerability affects IoT cameras worldwide and lets attackers hijack video streams.
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This is Why People Fear the ‘Internet of Things’

Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) network run by the Chinese manufacturer of the hardware. Now imagine that the geek gear you bought doesn’t actually let you block this P2P communication without some serious networking expertise or hardware surgery that few users would attempt. Continue reading This is Why People Fear the ‘Internet of Things’