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Can baby monitors protect children without data security risks?

For parents, keeping children safe is not only instinctive but a priority. We babyproof the house, we check the car seat twice, we wake up in the middle of the night at the smallest sound.

The Conversation · Aug 21

Engineer receives $30,000 for exposing a vulnerability affecting 7,000 robot vacuum cleaners — tinkerer just wanted to drive his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller

A software engineer gets access to 7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners while tinkering with an idea to use a gamepad to control his robotic hoover. Gets $30,000 from DJI for an undisclosed discovery.

Tom’s Hardware · Mar 7

Man Accidentally Hacks 7,000 Robot Vacuums Worldwide to PS5, Sees Thousands of Living Rooms

A security flaw in DJI Romo robot vacuums allowed access to thousands of devices worldwide, raising concerns about IoT vulnerabilities.

International Business Times UK · Feb 27

The accidental hacker: how one man gained control of 7,000 robots

When Sammy Azdoufal found he had access to data from robot vacuum cleaners around the world, he told a tech publication. But the implications could be mind-boggling

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24

A simple hack gave the owner of a brand new DJI Romo access to a global army of 7,000 robovacs — and the security flaw isn’t fully fixed

Robovac user gets a lot more than he bargained for after connecting his PS5 controller to a DJI Romo.

TechRadar · Feb 18