Could your tech be turned into a deafening and disorienting weapon? Research has revealed it could with a hack!
Matt Wixey researched a range of devices; phones, smarthomes, speakers, headphones and laptops and found that they could be turned into cyber weapons.
If the hack proposed were to happen the results could be physical harm as well as severe harassment to individuals or disrupt larger organisations,
Mr Wixey, head of research at PwC’s cyber-security practice, conducted experiments due to work he was doing to be encompassed in a PhD in ways that malware can cause direct physical harm.
Mr Wixey is now working with manufacturers in developing defenses.
