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robots

13 articles

The unpatchable backdoor in Yarbo robot mowers
  • Internet of things

Yarbo’s robot mower: a backdoor in your backyard

Yarbo smart mowers were found to have a built-in remote access loophole with identical passwords across all devices. A security researcher managed to completely hijack a mower, and could even force it to… run over its owner.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • July 2, 2026

Shrinking your digital footprint: a checklist by Kaspersky
  • privacy

How to shrink your digital footprint

Adjust your daily routines to leave as little data about yourself online as possible.

  • Tom Fosters

  • July 8, 2025

New gadgets unveiled at CES 2025, and their impact on security
  • CES

How safe are the top innovations at CES 2025?

Hundreds of new gadgets and smart appliances are traditionally unveiled every January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. How will they affect our cybersecurity?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • January 16, 2025

How vulnerable Ecovacs robot vacuums are being hacked
  • DEF CON

Ecovacs robot vacuums get hacked

Unknown hackers are exploiting newly discovered vulnerabilities in Ecovacs robot vacuums to spy on their owners and rain misery upon them.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • January 9, 2025

How to make sure a robot doesn’t spy on you, and can it function without internet access?
  • privacy

Rise of the robot vacuum cleaners

How to make sure a robot doesn’t spy on you, and can it function without internet access?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • December 26, 2022

Robots are taking over more and more jobs in various sectors. How safe is this?
  • IoT

Robot security

Every year, the number of tasks we entrust to machines rises steadily. How safe is this?

  • Bender the Robot

  • November 28, 2022

  • SAS

A robot’s ransom

Researchers investigate how vulnerabilities in robots can be exploited to take control of them.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • March 26, 2018

Will robots take our jobs?
  • future

Robots will take the jobs you don’t want

Our kids will be astronauts, artists, or travelers — whatever they want, because the boring tasks will be performed by robots.

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • April 25, 2017

True and false predictions of Back to the Future II
  • Back to the Future

Reflecting on the tech predictions in Back to the Future II

In Back to the Future 2, Marty McFly and co. come to 2015. Let’s see, which forecasts of this legendary saga are true and which are false.

  • Vladislav Biryukov

  • October 21, 2015

  • analysis

Security Week 38: Cisco routers under attack, a bug in AirDrop, and the arrest of cryptohawkers

Our today’s weekly news digest covers three stories about the mistakes coders make when programming robots, the way other people exploit those design flaws, and then the reckoning.

  • Konstantin Goncharov

  • September 21, 2015

Driverless cars: 5 consequences which are not so obvious
  • car hacking

Driverless cars: 5 not so obvious consequences

Let’s imagine the things we would have to leave behind as a brand new world of driverless cars is evolving at a full speed (besides the enjoyment of driving itself)

  • Vladislav Biryukov

  • May 5, 2015

Researchers hack and totally hijack Raven II remote surgery system
  • encryption

Hacking the Robotic Surgeon’s Hands and Eyes

New research demonstrates that it is possible to hack and hijack devices used to perform remote surgery

  • Brian Donohue

  • May 1, 2015

Maritime drones: flying, swimming and diving
  • drones

Maritime drones: flying, swimming and diving

Everybody knows about flying drones, but there are also swimming and diving drones that patrol ports and ships, demine shores and so on. Let’s take a closer look at maritime robots.

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • April 20, 2015

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