EPISODE · Feb 13, 2019 · 7 MIN
A Popular Electric Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up or Stop
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
The fleets of electric scooters that have inundated cities are alarming enough as is. Now add cybersercurity concerns to the list: Researchers from the mobile security firm Zimperium are warning that Xiaomi’s popular M365 scooter model has a worrying bug. The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely take over any of the scooters to control crucial things like, ahem, acceleration and braking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The fleets of electric scooters that have inundated cities are alarming enough as is. Now add cybersercurity concerns to the list: Researchers from the mobile security firm Zimperium are warning that Xiaomi’s popular M365 scooter model has a worrying bug. The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely take over any of the scooters to control crucial things like, ahem, acceleration and braking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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