Security News
From hacking hotel room robots to crackdowns on stalkerware apps, Threatpost editors break down this week's top news stories.
Japan's Henn na Hotel says it's "modified" the bots so pervs can't exploit the ability to run unsigned code and spy on future guests.
An unsecured NFC tag opens a door to trivial exploitation of robots inside Japanese hotels.
Leaked travel details revealed US military personnel and trips A security team for review site vpnMentor, led by Israeli researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, recently found a publicly accessible...
Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know? Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view...
A Magecart threat actor has compromised the websites of two hotel chains to inject scripts targeting Android and iOS users, Trend Micro’s security researchers warn. read more
Spec design flaw stiffs security of gizmos Roundup Let's run through all the bits and bytes of security news beyond what we've already covered. Also, don't forget our articles from this year's...
700,000 customer records were exposed after being housed on a vendor's server that lacked appropriate security.
Vendor Copied Data Without Authorization; Left MongoDB Open to InternetChoice Hotels says about 700,000 records for guests were exposed after one of its vendors copied data from its systems....
LAS VEGAS – A vulnerability in a popular IoT lock key – used chiefly by a high-end hotel in Europe – allowed researchers to break into hotel rooms. The locks in question are dubbed “mobile keys”...