Google Home and Chromecast vulnerability allows hackers to obtain location data

Google LLC is promising to issue a fix within weeks for an authentication issue within its Google Home speakers and Chromecast devices that allow hackers to easily obtain the home address of a user. Discovered by Craig Young, a researcher with security firm Tripwire Inc., the vulnerability exploits a loophole in Google’s systems to cross-check a list of nearby wireless networks relative to the given device with Google’s geolocation look-up services, allowing a would-be hacker to triangulate the location of the given target.

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