Hacking a Segway

Schneier on Security 2017-07-21

Summary:

The Segway has a mobile app. It is hackable: While analyzing the communication between the app and the Segway scooter itself, Kilbride noticed that a user PIN number meant to protect the Bluetooth communication from unauthorized access wasn't being used for authentication at every level of the system. As a result, Kilbride could send arbitrary commands to the scooter without...

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Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

07/21/2017, 11:44

Date published:

07/21/2017, 07:23