An 11-year-old "cyber ninja" stunned an audience of security experts today by hacking into their bluetooth devices to manipulate a teddy bear and show how interconnected smart toys "can be weaponised". American wunderkind Reuben Paul, may be still only in 6th grade at his school in Austin, Texas, but he and his teddy bear Bob wowed hundreds at a timely cyber security conference in The Netherlands. "From terminators to teddy bears, anything or any toy can be weaponised." To demonstrate, he deployed his cuddly bear, which connects to the icloud via wifi and bluetooth smart technology to receive and transmit messages. "Most internet-connected things have a blue-tooth functionality ...

Source: dna May 16, 2017 17:37 UTC