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Title: News: Researchers expose security flaw in Osram smart bulbs
Post by: HCK on July 26, 2016, 04:05:26 pm
News: Researchers expose security flaw in Osram smart bulbs

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               Researchers have discovered a number of flaws in the Osram Lightify lighting system that could leave a user’s WiFi network open to attack, ZDNet reports. In an email advisory, security firm Rapid7 said one of the worst flaws allows an attacker to “take control of a product” to launch browser-based attacks against a user or identify the home wireless network’s password. Where a home network’s password is as strong as the…

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