Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

2 years ago by Nemeski to c/cybersecurity

Fermiverse 41 points 2 years ago

This is really bad as most cheap IOT devices using this chip will not receive an update all.

Would like to see a smartphone app testing this out via bluetooth so we could do some damage control at least and take them offline.

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JustinTheGM 13 points 2 years ago

The 'S' in IOT stands for Secure

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