Smart Pet Feeders Expose Personal Data

Two security flaws have been discovered in popular smart pet feeders that could lead to data theft and privacy invasion. According to cybersecurity experts at Kaspersky, the first of these vulnerabilities relates to certain smart pet feeders using hard-coded credentials for MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport), a messaging protocol designed for communication between devices over networks with limited bandwidth or unreliable connections.

Source: Infosecurity

 


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