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02-13-2015, 03:18 PM
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Personal weather stations can expose your Wi-Fi network (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNH8zoTrlULoTq_6bx5pdcEnj1AWQw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778738100446&ei=JSTeVPDdGsSBmAKnwICAAg&url=http://www.cio.com/article/2884254/personal-weather-stations-can-expose-your-wifi-network.html)
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When the weather stations are first configured, users need to give them access to their Wi-Fi networks, so they can transmit sensor readings to the Netatmo cloud over the Internet. The problem is that the devices also send the wireless network ...
Researcher discovers security flaw in Netatmo weather station (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNHqlFVE7HGUyMYc-jzqOiKMGYUzcw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778738100446&ei=JSTeVPDdGsSBmAKnwICAAg&url=https://gigaom.com/2015/02/12/researcher-discovers-security-flaw-in-netatmo-weather-station/)Gigaom

all 2 news articles &raquo; (http://news.google.ca/news/more?ncl=dUuRY83gWNVVH1MHUkLudfamAhZoM&authuser=0&ned=ca)



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