{"id":282785,"date":"2018-10-31T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=282785"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:38:35","slug":"major-security-flaws-in-google-home-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/282785-major-security-flaws-in-google-home-hub.html","title":{"rendered":"Major security flaws in Google Home Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security advocate Jerry Gamblin has <a href=\"https:\/\/jerrygamblin.com\/2018\/10\/29\/google-home-insecurity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>discovered<\/strong><\/a> glaring security issues with Google&#8217;s Home Hub device, labelling the device&#8217;s security as extremely poor.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/279221-google-unveils-home-hub.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Home Hub<\/strong><\/a> is a Google Assistant-enabled smart speaker with a large LCD display that is capable of controlling connected smart devices and fulfilling a range of assistant-related tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Gamblin discovered that a simple unauthenticated set of instructions could be sent to the Google Home Hub forcing it to reboot or perform other tasks.<\/p>\n<p>He was also able to execute a number of other unauthenticated commands, which could do everything from deleting network settings on the device to disabling all notifications.<\/p>\n<p>Another command line forces all devices on the network to lose their network settings, prompting a manual setup to reconnect the devices.<\/p>\n<p>There are no security issues that could permanently damage hardware or directly obtain private information, but Gamblin noted that the security problems are alarming for products made by Google.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/282531-china-reportedly-hijacking-internet-traffic-to-spy-on-western-countries.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">China reportedly hijacking Internet traffic to spy on Western countries<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security advocate Jerry Gamblin has discovered glaring security issues with Google&#8217;s Home Hub device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":279223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[54437,55095,48347],"class_list":["post-282785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google-home-hub","tag-jerry-gamblin","tag-security-flaws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282803,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282785\/revisions\/282803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}