It turns out, smart coffee makers can get hacked, according to a recent report.
Martin Hron, a senior researcher at cybersecurity software company Avast, recently figured out how to hack into a smart coffee maker and use the machine to ask for money.
Hron used a coffee maker from a company called Smarter that allows someone to make coffee using their smartphone or tablet, according to a Friday blog post.
However, the coffee maker he used for his research was made before 2017, when the company switched to a new, more secure platform, the post said.
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According to Hron, once the smart coffee maker is turned on, it “creates its own Wi-Fi network that the hopeful coffee drinker first connects to in order to set up the device.”
However, the coffee maker’s protocol — or the form it uses to transmit information between the app and the machine — has “hardly any encryption, authorization or authentication,” Hron said in the post.
