{"id":6389,"date":"2019-10-26T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2019-10-26T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T15:34:05","slug":"japanese-hotel-apologizes-for-robots-that-allowed-video-and-sound-to-be-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/10\/26\/japanese-hotel-apologizes-for-robots-that-allowed-video-and-sound-to-be-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Hotel Apologizes for Robots That Allowed Video and Sound to Be Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Henn na Hotel in Japan has bedside robots that serve as guest assistants.\u00a0 Several weeks ago, a researcher warned HIS Group that the bed-bots were easily accessible because they allowed unsigned code to run simply by tapping an NFC tag to the back of the robot\u2019s head.\u00a0 This allowed a hacker to remotely watch and listen through cameras and microphones in the robot. \u00a0He released a 0day vulnerability after the researcher had not heard back from the hotel for more than 90 days.\u00a0 The hotel then apologized and fixed the robots.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lrvick\/status\/1182823213736161280\">researcher\u2019s twitter<\/a> also makes for a good read.<\/p>\n<p>The report also includes a note from a cybersecurity specialist.\u00a0 Joseph Carson said such a vulnerability is not surprising and anything connected to the internet: a laptop, phone, webcam or hospitality robot, are all exposed to the risk of being hacked and abused.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/91157-japanese-hotel-apologizes-for-robots-that-allowed-video-and-sound-to-be-hacked\">https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/91157-japanese-hotel-apologizes-for-robots-that-allowed-video-and-sound-to-be-hacked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Henn na Hotel in Japan has bedside robots that serve as guest assistants.\u00a0 Several weeks ago, a researcher warned HIS Group that the bed-bots were easily accessible because they allowed unsigned code to run simply by tapping an NFC tag to the back of the robot\u2019s head.\u00a0 This allowed a hacker to remotely watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}