Google Nest

Incidents

Sep 25, 2019

Smart home hacked; attackers expose a family to high temperatures and really loud music

While they can sometimes help us simplify some everyday tasks, smart home devices can also be used by threat actors for malicious purposes. This is the case of a family in Wisconsin, US, whose members began to be harassed by a group of hackers that compromised the management portal of their Google Nest smart home […]

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Hacked

Oct 15, 2018

Google’s Nest Handed Over Data More Than 300 Times To Governments

Recently, we saw the launch of Google Home Hub that came integrated with Google Nest — a smart home surveillance feature. While the idea of a smart home does sound exciting, you might want to think twice as the data gathered from surveillance can be accessed by government bodies as well. A recent report by Forbes, […]

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