Apple’s HomeKit vulnerable
 

Hackers can take over your home

The software genii at the fruity cargo-cult Apple have penned some natty code which allows a hacker to take a fanboy’s “smart” home.

Security researcher Trevor Spiniolas has discovered something he called a vulnerability which is clearly a feature unavailable on Android or Window’s devices.

He said it is capable of locking iOS devices into a spiral of freezing, crashing, and rebooting if a user connects to a sabotaged Apple Home device.

The vulnerability can be exploited through Apple's HomeKit API, the software interface that allows an iOS app to control compatible smart home devices.

All the hacker must do is create a HomeKit device with an extremely long name -- around 500,000 characters -- then an iOS device that connects to it will become unresponsive once it reads the device name and enter a cycle of freezing and rebooting that can only be ended by wiping and restoring the iOS device.

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