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1 day agoHacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy
After purchasing a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled mask with a programmable app for his family's "anything that glows" themed Halloween costumes, Bishop Fox senior security consultant Nathan Elendt discovered it was "shockingly easy" to load custom face images and control the mask with the app. "I found the app automatically scanned for, found, and then controlled my brand new, out-of-the-box mask without so much as a single authentication check, giving me some insight into how these masks worked," he wrote in a Thursday blog.
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