A Popular Electric Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up or Stop
A Popular Electric Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up or Stop
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 13, 20194m 48s
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Show Notes
The fleets of electric scooters that have inundated cities are alarming enough as is. Now add cybersercurity concerns to the list: Researchers from the mobile security firm Zimperium are warning that Xiaomi’s popular M365 scooter model has a worrying bug. The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely take over any of the scooters to control crucial things like, ahem, acceleration and braking.
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