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Comment: Owlet baby wi-fi monitor "worst IoT security of 2016"
October 2016 by Cesare Garlati, chief security strategist for the prpl Foundation
According to a recent report in the Register the Owlet wi-fi baby heart monitor was demonstrated to have possibly the “worst IoT security of 2016” by security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski.
Commenting on the discovery, Cesare Garlati, chief security strategist for the prpl
Foundation said:
“This latest case is another example of how devices with the best of intentions,
such as alerting parents when their babies experience heart troubles, can turn
dangerous if taken advantage of by a sinister party. Sadly, this is more often than
not in the case of embedded computing within so-called smart devices. The
connectivity element makes them exploitable and if manufacturers and developers
don’t consider this and take extra steps to secure devices at the hardware layer,
these are stories that we will, unfortunately, keep hearing.”
