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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Recent Technologies and Trends in Software Engineering => Software Engineering => Cyber and Software Security => Topic started by: maruf.swe on March 29, 2019, 11:28:16 PM

Title: EU Recalls Children’s Smartwatch That Leaks Location Data
Post by: maruf.swe on March 29, 2019, 11:28:16 PM

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The children’s smartwatch allows bad actors to track their location and communicate with them, according to the alert.

UPDATE

The European Commission has issued a recall for a popular smartwatch for children, citing “serious” privacy issues that could allow a bad actor to track or communicate with kids remotely.

The issues exist in Safe-KID-One, an IoT watch made by German company Enox Group that allows parents to surveil their children using a GPS map on a complementary smartphone app.  However, this mobile app accompanying the watch has unencrypted communications with its backend server – enabling unauthenticated access to data, according to the EU.

For More Details : https://threatpost.com/eu-recalls-childrens-smartwatch-that-leaks-location-data/141511/ (https://threatpost.com/eu-recalls-childrens-smartwatch-that-leaks-location-data/141511/)