{"id":16211,"date":"2025-08-09T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16211"},"modified":"2025-08-09T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:35:48","slug":"it-looks-like-a-school-bathroom-smoke-detector-a-teen-hacker-showed-it-could-be-an-audio-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16211","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. 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It also has a microphone for listening out for \u201caggression,\u201d gunshots, and keywords such as someone calling for help, a feature that to Vasquez-Garcia immediately raised concerns of more intrusive surveillance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Now, after months of reverse engineering and security testing, Vasquez-Garcia and a fellow hacker he\u2019s partnered with who goes by the pseudonym \u201cNyx,\u201d have shown that it\u2019s possible to hack one of those Halo 3C gadgets\u2014which they\u2019ve taken to calling by the nickname \u201csnitch puck\u201d\u2014and take full control of it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-fkZDUs kHRAYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eEeytc eRSvCP asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr hdztbW responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Clothing TShirt Adult Person Accessories Glasses Face Head Photography Portrait and Sleeve\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg 120w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg 320w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg 640w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg 960w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/689659f12d36b477fe2b4bbe\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/Hackers_RChurchill_004.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionText-brNLzD deqABF imSbFE hMBSFK caption__text\">Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia and Nyx in Las Vegas, NV on August 8, 2025.<\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionCredit-eowWKH deqABF kpqIso kpuElq caption__credit\">Photograph: Ronda Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">At the Defcon hacker conference today, they plan to show that by exploiting just a few relatively simple security vulnerabilities, any hacker on the same network could have hijacked a Halo 3C to turn it into a real-time audio eavesdropping bug, disabled its detection capabilities, created fake alerts for vaping or gunshots, or even played whatever sound or audio they chose out of the device\u2019s speaker. Motorola said it has since developed a firmware update to address those security flaws that will automatically push to cloud-connected devices by Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Many of the hackers\u2019 tricks are on display in a video demo below, which the Vasquez-Garcia and Nyx made ahead of their Defcon presentation:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wi-Fi\u2014\u201cusing the school network as a lab,\u201d as he puts it\u2014when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier \u201cIPVideo Corporation.\u201d After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":846,"featured_media":16212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[4045,2419,1603,2420,2021,1599,2474,921,1601],"class_list":["post-16211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-404-media","tag-black-hat","tag-cybersecurity","tag-defcon","tag-hacks","tag-privacy","tag-schools","tag-security","tag-surveillance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. 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