A vulnerability in Phillips smart light bulbs could leave users open to blackouts and password-stealing cyber attacks, a new whitepaper says.
Security flaws in Philips smart light bulbs are leaving users open to blackouts and password-stealing cyber attacks, according to independent researcher Nitesh Dhanjani’s public white paper Hacking Lightbulbs: Security Evaluation of the Philips Hue Personal Wireless Light System.
Dhanjani highlighted several vulnerabilities in the bulbs’ architecture as being potentially exploitable, and he says the most serious vulnerability could be used by hackers to permanently turn off the lights, according to an article from V3.