A contact sensor is the simplest device in a smart home, and it is still the one people most often mount wrong. Two pieces go on a door or window: a body with the electronics and a battery, and a smaller part with a magnet. When they are close, the sensor reports "closed". When the magnet moves away, it reports "open". Most problems come from those
Kaspersky published research on November 2, 2026 showing that several Intelbras home Wi-Fi cameras accepted firmware update requests from anyone on the local network, without a password and without checking the file. Each request rebooted the camera and took it offline for about a minute. Sent in a loop, the requests kept it offline for as long as
The Meshtastic project published firmware 2.8.2.4c89b69 on 2 November 2026, a month after 2.8.1. It is marked as an alpha, so it is for people who like to test. Meshtastic is open-source firmware that turns cheap LoRa boards, many of them built on the ESP32 or nRF52840, into an off-grid text messaging mesh.
Synology published a warning on 29 October 2026: attackers are exploiting a vulnerability the company patched in December 2024 to break into NAS drives running outdated versions of DSM, its operating system, then encrypt the data and demand a ransom. On 2 November BleepingComputer linked the attacks to the C3RB3R ransomware. Synology rarely issues
On 2 November 2026 Google Threat Intelligence said that last week it and its partners dismantled XCPE, a botnet built from more than 1.3 million Android set-top boxes in over 200 countries. The partners were Japan's National Police Agency, Lumen, HUMAN Security, Plume, Synthient and Trend Micro's TrendAI. Google says with high confidence that the b
Supermarkets in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland found their fridges and freezers warming up on the night of 1-2 November 2026. Inside some cabinets the temperature climbed to 50°C. It is the second wave in three weeks: on 11 October up to 700 supermarkets in France were hit the same way, with losses put at
Seven OS command injection vulnerabilities in WAVLINK routers, mesh units and access points were published on 1 and 2 November 2026. All of them came through VulDB, each links to a proof-of-concept write-up on GitHub (six of the seven by a researcher using the name pipiyyb), and each record says the exploit is public. The records say WAVLINK was co
Apple's HomeView smart display may get a second job as a security camera. Reddit user pdfu found settings text in HomeView Software 27.2 describing a mode that turns the display's built-in camera into a HomeKit Secure Video camera. AppleInsider and The Verge reported the find on 1 November 2026. Apple has said nothing about the feature, and HomeVie
eQ-3 started rolling out version 3.9.13 of the free Homematic IP app on 27 October 2026. The update makes the system react to where people are, puts the app on car screens and adds a second way to regain admin access after a phone is lost. The iOS release is going to plan. eQ-3 says the Android release through Google Play is delayed and will be rol
