Security News > 2020 > February > Vacuum Cleaners, Baby Monitors and Other Vulnerable IoT Devices

They include everything from baby monitors to Wi-Fi chips.

One such device is a connected vacuum cleaner, the Trifo Ironpie M6. According to researchers with Checkmarx, the vacuum has several high-severity flaws that open the device to remote attacks.

Those include a denial of service attack that bricks the vacuum, to a hack that allows adversaries to peer into private homes via the vacuum's embedded camera.

Speaking to Threatpost at RSAC was Erez Yalon with Checkmarx who warns that consumers should re-think buying smart home devices with potentially invasive cameras.

He cautions, the IoT marketplace continues to have worrying security issues.

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