Everyday we hear of different hack activities from email hacks, data breach, and spyware, but imagine the outcome or the feeling you get when you realize that there is someone who always spies on you when ever you are naked!
Security researchers at PenTestPartners have discovered a flaw on an internet connected vibrator that let hackers to easily take charge and live stream the user activities.
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The vibrator device called Svakom Siime Eye, is an internet-connected vibrator that costs about $250 and comes equipped with a video camera with streaming capability. According to PenTestPartners, the devices default password is 88888888 and if left unchanged, someone in the range of the dildo Wifi connection can easily join to live stream the activity that the user is doing with the dildo.
The researchers went on to explain how hackers could even take charge of the firmware remotely without the victims knowledge.
"One could do just about anything with it if you had the time and inclination to write dildo firmware!," Munro from PenTestPartner said.
"We 've got complete control over every inbuilt function in the Siime Eye, easy access to the video stream, a root shell and persistence on a dildo"
The researchers said that they informed Svakom, the producers of the products regarding the flaws several times in the past but got no response. Svakom were messaged by PenTestPartners in December 2016, January and February 2017 but their complaints were ignored.