Student Hackers Expose Critical Vulnerability in School ‘Smart’ Sensors at Defcon
Student Hackers Expose Critical Vulnerability in School ‘Smart’ Sensors at Defcon A pair of student hackers, Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia and his partner Nyx, revealed a significant security flaw at the Defcon hacker conference yesterday, demonstrating how ‘smart’ smoke and vape detectors commonly found in schools could be easily hijacked. The devices, known as Halo 3C, were shown to be vulnerable to exploitation, allowing hackers to transform them into real-time audio eavesdropping bugs, disable their detection capabilities, generate fake alerts, or even…