The Verge
US · 1 hrs ago
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A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
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A security researcher demonstrated critical vulnerabilities in Yarbo robot lawnmowers by remotely hacking one from thousands of miles away and controlling it to physically approach a person, highlighting dangerous security flaws in the IoT device.
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
A Yarbo lawnmower with a trimmer attachment. | Image: Yarbo
I'm lying in the dirt. It's coming for me. Then, with a lurch, it's climbing up my chest. If Andreas Makris doesn't stop the 200-pound robot lawn mower in time, it could drag its blades across my body.
Makris certainly can't reach over and hit the emergency stop button - he's nearly 6,000 miles away, having hacked this robot from the other side of the planet, to demonstrate the gaping security holes in Yarbo's robot lawn mowers. And I
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