GettyLast July, in Google’s Sunnyvale offices, a hacker found a way to trick doors into opening without the requisite RFID keycard. He was intrigued and digging deeper discovered a “hardcoded” encryption key was used by all Software House devices. A Google spokesperson said there was no evidence the doors had been exploited by any malicious hackers. But problems likely remain for others using the vulnerable Software House tech. That’s because the Software House systems didn’t have enough memory to cope with the installation of new firmware, Tomaschik said.

Source: Forbes September 03, 2018 12:00 UTC