SmartThings’ app store, where third-party developers can contribute SmartApps that run in the platform’s cloud and let users customize functions, holds more than 500 apps.
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And consumers are interested in that.Īs a testament to SmartThings’ growing use, its Android companion app that lets you manage your connected home devices remotely has been downloaded more than 100,000 times. That’s the convenience these systems offer. Regardless of how safe individual devices are or claim to be, new vulnerabilities form when hardware like electronic locks, thermostats, ovens, sprinklers, lights and motion sensors are networked and set up to be controlled remotely. Credit: Kelly O’Sullivan, Michigan Engineering. That’s one of four attacks they staged on the consumer-based Internet of Things platform.
University of Michigan cybersecurity researchers were able to hack into the SmartThings home automation platform and get the PIN code to a door lock. “I would say it’s okay to use as a hobby right now, but I wouldn’t use it where security is paramount.” “At least today, with the one public IoT software platform we looked at, which has been around for several years, there are significant design vulnerabilities from a security perspective” said Atul Prakash, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan. The researchers didn’t like what they saw. The work is believed to be the first platform-wide study of a real-world connected home system. Their “lock-pick malware app” was one of four attacks that the cybersecurity researchers leveled at an experimental set-up of Samsung’s SmartThings, a top-selling Internet of Things platform for consumers.
Cybersecurity researchers at the University of Michigan were able to hack into the leading “smart home” automation system and essentially get the PIN code to a home’s front door.
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