Researchers hack Philips Hue lights via a drone; IoT worm could cause city blackout

Every once in a while, you read about an attack which has the potential for especially concerning consequences. Since reading about an IoT worm that could unleash all sorts of chaos, it’s come to mind again and again. Then it hit the radar of cryptographer and security pro Bruce Schneier. He wrote, “This is exactly the sort of Internet-of-Things attack that has me worried.”

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Dalhousie University in Canada didn’t just theorize about the possibility of an IoT worm; using a few hundred dollars of readily available equipment, they created a proof of concept attack to exploit Philips Hue smart light bulbs.

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