Free Software Foundation

Gee Whiz! Connected Hotel Room Controls Vulnerable to Hacking

In-brief: security researcher Matthew Garrett of the firm COREOS found that software-based lighting controls in his London hotel room, which had replaced mechanical light switches, could be easily hacked, giving him the ability to control lighting in any room in the facility.

DNS-Linked Flaw Leaves Many Systems Vulnerable

In-brief: Researchers at Google are warning about a previously undetected flaw in a widely used open source library could be exploited by attacks using overly long web domain names.